American Cruise Lines said today that SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet has been added to its 2023 fleet of riverboats and small cruise ships. The new Starlink satellite service is a major upgrade,
Mobile satcom giant Inmarsat has made its Fleet Xpress maritime broadband service available to shipyards. Installed during new building, says Inmarsat, Fleet Xpress for Shipyards eliminates time-consuming and costly installation works in
Mobile satcom leader Inmarsat has secured a new contract for its flexible, three-in-one network service Fleet LTE from Ålesund, Norway, headquartered Golden Energy Offshore AS. Using Fleet LTE, three of the operator’s
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has successfully launched I-6 F1, the first of Inmarsat’s new generation of satellites, from the JAXA Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. The Inmarsat-6 series are Inmarsat’s first ever hybrid
Satcom giant Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress service agreement with Maersk Supply Service has been extended to include fleet wide IoT-based ship management connectivity on separate, dedicated bandwidths. The extension has enabled Maersk Supply
A report from satcom leader Inmarsat pinpoints the impact of COVID-19 in accelerating global shipping’s digital transformation. Entitled “A Changed World: The state of digital transformation in a post-COVID-19 maritime industry,” it
The Canadian Coast Guard is using Iridium Certus connectivity to help it meet its mission requirements, which include extensive operations in polar regions that are outside of the footprint of other satcom
Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) reports that Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has approved regulatory amendments necessary to allow for Japanese adoption of Iridium Certus broadband, Iridium Controller–Pilot Data
Over the next five years, mobile communications giant Inmarsat is to invest $100 million into what it says will be the largest ever transformation of its services, creating “the communications network of
By Alexander Buchmann, Managing Director, Hanseaticsoft CONTRIBUTED CONTENT: Hanseaticsoft is an established global provider of cloud-based software for the maritime industry. Last year, satcom specialist IEC Telecom highlighted that demand for digital