ABS recently participated at the Sea Asia Conference and Exhibition, Singapore’s iconic maritime mega-event, highlighting Asia’s pivotal role in the global shipping world.
Held in conjunction with Singapore Maritime Week, Sea Asia attracted more than 16,000 participants from 85 different countries.
Sea Asia also provided a forum for discussion and debate among industry leaders across the spectrum of the marine and offshore industries with more than 900 delegates. ABS Executive Vice President of Corporate Energy Development Ken Richardson moderated the offshore forum and highlighted a number of challenges the offshore sector is facing, including how the industry will manage big data.
According to Richardson, leveraging big data could lead to better life cycle management for offshore assets and streamline the classification process. “Finding a way to harness big data is vital to the future,” he says, adding, “Investing in R&D is the most effective way to cultivate innovation.”
Throughout the event, ABS provided daily presentations at the booth covering energy efficiency, LNG as a marine fuel, dynamic positioning, ballast water treatment systems, and Artic research.
With the growth of Asian maritime, there is a need to inspire future generations in Singapore to consider the shipping and offshore industries as potential career paths, according to Derek Novak, ABS President and COO, Pacific Division.
“There are still a relatively low number of local graduates entering these industries, despite Singapore being one of the largest transhipment ports in the world and one of its most successful maritime clusters,” Novak says. “Our industry has traditionally focused its outreach on university graduates for obvious reasons, but I believe that we need to start cultivating the next generation of talent at younger ages.”
For that purpose, ABS invited students to attend a brief presentation about ABS and the role classification societies play within industry. Nearly 200 students attended this year’s event as part of the Sea Asia Youth Tour, of which more than 100 students visited the ABS booth.
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