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Maritime Innovator: UniSea
Published May 12, 2022Our customers constantly amaze us with their innovative approach to industry solutions and out-of-the-box ideas to build a better planet. This month’s Innovative Customer Spotlight is on UniSea, a software and consultancy house that has been delivering market leading HSEQ and operation support software to vessels and companies worldwide for over two decades.
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Leveling the playing field: A high-tech tool for small-scale and artisanal fisheries
Published May 5, 2022It is no secret that the world’s largest vessels, the gargantuan oil tankers and container ships that travel the oceans while transiting between ports, are decked out with the latest tech.
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AIS ship tracking reveal: Qatar helping EU survive Russian gas sanctions
Published May 4, 2022The Russian invasion of Ukraine has upended not only the diplomatic status quo in Europe but it is having myriad knock-on effects that span continents and economic sectors.
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Customer Spotlight - Sinay: Harnessing the power of data to build sustainable maritime operations
Published April 29, 2022As you may know, at Spire, we’re trying to do our bit to help solve real-world challenges from space.
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Arctic shipping: The once unattainable becomes increasingly normalized
Published April 22, 2022The ability to sail the world’s northernmost seas has long been a nautical dream pursued by explorers and heavily invested in by nation-states.
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Maritime Innovator: Nautilus Labs
Published April 22, 2022Our customers constantly amaze us with their innovative approach to industry solutions and out-of-the-box ideas to build a better planet. This month’s Innovative Customer Spotlight is on Nautilus Labs, a maritime technology company that reduces emissions while maximizing commercial returns. Let’s take a look at how Nautilus Labs is advancing the efficiency of ocean commerce through AI.
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Earth Day 2022 - Observed from Space
Published April 22, 2022It’s Time to Invest in our Pale Blue Dot
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Leveraging the power of satellite data to mitigate the global supply chain crisis
Published April 20, 2022This article is the first in a series covering the worldwide supply chain disruptions and how Spire’s global solutions are helping alleviate these pain points across diverse industries including maritime, aviation and weather.
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COVID Continues to Throw Curveballs for China's Ports
Published April 14, 2022As has become clear, the endpoint of COVID-19—if it ever comes—won’t be as plainly defined as when it took off in the first quarter of 2020. Here we are now, two years later, and though things seem currently under control in the United States and Europe (though the Omicron subvariant BA.2 may be changing that), the impact of the pandemic is still coursing around the world.
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Sanctions on Russia as it presses in on Ukraine
Published April 14, 2022The current Russian invasion of Ukraine is taking place on land long wracked by war. The events that have occurred over the last month bring us to look back on what has come before, including some of the worst episodes of 20th-century European history.
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The reality of preparing for climate change consequences
Published April 7, 2022The impending costs of climate change will be significant and span environmental, cultural, and financial realms.
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Port of Hamburg: An old port thriving in today’s world
Published April 1, 2022The Germans know what they have in the port of Hamburg. Known in its native land as Das Tor zur Welt—The Gateway to the World—it is just that, the nation’s primary transit point for goods.
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