Sponsored by Shanghai Municipal Government, SMU and MTCC-Asia jointly held the Advanced International Training Program on Marine Digitalization. Prof. Shi Xin, Vice President of SMU, attended the opening ceremony. Representatives from marine and port departments of ABS, DNV and ABB made speeches respectively.
Prof. Shi Xin addressed that digitalization is a trend of future shipping. Digitalization will definitely reshape the shipping industry in all aspects, making it safer, greener and more efficient. Currently, about 70% of shipping companies in the world have begun to deploy digitalization. The outbreak of the Covid-19 has accelerated the pace of digitalization in the global shipping industry.
The training program was conducted online. 55 trainees from China, Singapore, Malaysia, Ukraine and Latvia attended the program.