Inmarsat inks first of its kind agreement with HHI subsidiary
Written by Nick Blenkey
Agreement was signed by Ronald Spithout, President of Inmarsat Maritime (left), and Kwang Hean An, CEO of Hyundai Global Service
Inmarsat has signed a business cooperation agreement with shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries digital solutions subsidiary Hyundai Global Service (HGS) that paves the way for HGS to use Inmarsat Fleet Xpress dedicated bandwidth to support its services for shipowners.
The agreement follows trials on three ships over a three month period, testing a variety of sensor-driven applications measuring voyage and equipment operating data, including fuel consumption and vibration monitoring, plus HGS analytics and reporting services.
The agreement also sees HGS recognized as an Inmarsat Certified Application Partner (CAP).
The Inmarsat CAP program allows application and software developers to choose their own route to digital enablement via either a dedicated bandwidth service over Fleet Xpress or FleetBroadband or through a dedicated API that allows access to Fleet Data, Inmarsat’s cloud-based IoT platform.
This means shipowners and ship managers have more choice when it comes to IoT-based solutions, building on Inmarsat’s maritime digital portfolio and Committed Information
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“The Hyundai-Inmarsat agreement is effectively the first of its kind and marks the commercial service introduction of Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress dedicated bandwidth services as part of our portfolio of solutions for Certified Application Providers,” said Stefano Poli, VP, Business Development, Inmarsat Maritime. “With this new service, HGS is now strengthening its value proposition of applications to monitor and analyze ship performance for existing and new customers.”
Inmarsat says that HGS has already signaled that it intends to extend its ship digitalization offering into the retrofit market and is in discussions with Inmarsat on options to provide a bundle of connectivity, certified hardware, and HGS’s Digital Transformation services as a “Shipyard Service Package.”
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