IMO to use virtual reality to improve ferry safety - SAFETY4SEA - Safety4Sea

Virtual world exertion has been introduced into IMO’s enactment to assistance its Member States to amended home ferry safety.

More specifically, during a virtual meeting, beneficiary Member States Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam were introduced to a exertion that aims to enactment administrations successful grooming their unit utilizing VR exertion to heighten the cognition and skills to guarantee home rider vessel safety.

The task was funded by the Republic of Korea and delivered with method and in-kind publication by the Korea Maritime Transportation Safety Authority (KOMSA).

Going forward, the existing VR scenarios provided by KOMSA whitethorn beryllium expanded, with the anticipation of further scenarios being introduced into the VR instrumentality to widen the grooming to screen different types of ships (and countries), taxable to further consultations with the Republic of Korea officials liable for the bilateral IMO-Republic of Korea partnership.

The task builds connected IMO’s enactment connected home ferry information successful the Asia and Pacific portion spanning much than 12 years.

Earlier successful November, the consultation and appraisal elements of a task to assistance the Philippines to amended the information and vigor ratio of its home ferry operations concluded.

A study with recommendations covering operational, regulatory, argumentation and modification solutions is expected to beryllium released by the extremity of January 2023, marking the extremity of the project.