BackNautical Mail – Policy Area Ship News
It is the time of the year, when Policy Area Ship and our projects want to share their latest bits and pieces of their achievements and other news! Let’s hear all the updates:
Policy Area Ship updates
EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region Action Plan is currently under update and it will be finalized in the beginning of the 2026.
Policy Area Ship Operational Group Meeting will be held on online on Teams, if you want to participate to hear about using AI anomaly detection in sustainable shipping, about e-Methanol or about latest news of our projects, contact PAC Sami Vesterinen sami.vesterinen@traficom.fi to receive a link to our Operational Group Meeting.
EUSBSR Annual Forum will be held in Sopot, Poland 29-30.9.2025 and Policy Area Ship will have a panel discussion and a workshop in cooperation with other Policy Areas. The panel discussion is called “New Circular Economy Solutions” and the workshop “Are our green fuels ready for green shipping corridors?” join us to hear about these interesting topics!
Project news
Watch the new video “Exploring OpenRisk II” showcasing the project’s objectives and partnership, and read the latest news about the innovative EcoSensitivity Tool that gives Baltic Sea responders an advantage in tackling oil spills.
New reports are out now!
- Road maps to provide green energy for transport chains starting/ending in ports.
- The output contains two road maps for implementing green fuel bunkering, fueling and charging strategies. The purpose of the road maps is to serve as blueprint/guideline to other port authorities when implementing similar strategies to other stakeholder.
- Improved green transport chains through demonstrated stakeholder cooperation.
- This report is a comprehensive strategic and technical roadmap for maintaining and modernising the Rostock–Trelleborg rail ferry link. More than a simple service review, it is a detailed case study of how cross-border collaboration, infrastructure investment, market engagement, and green innovation can come together to preserve a critical transport corridor in Europe.
- Manual for electrification process of port operations (RTGs & OPS)
- This report consists of two manuals to decarbonise terminal handling operations: (1) Process documentation for the technical retrofitting of a gantry crane in Gdynia Container Terminal – Port of Gdynia example | (2) Flexible Onshore Power Supply system for small ships – Port of Skagen example.
Join our events to learn more about the Blue Supply Chains project results:
- 8 Oct 2025 – Stakeholder meeting (Skagen, Denmark)
Focus: Onshore Power Supply Solutions
Registration opens soon. - 17 Oct 2025 – Building a resilient transport system: the power of combined transport in Europe (webinar)
Focus: potential of combined transport for building a resilient transport system. Co-organised with Scandria Alliance
Register here. - 22 Oct 2025 – International Event of the Swedish Blue Supply Chains Cluster about green maritime fuels and transition road maps (Umeå, Sweden)
Registration. - 20 Nov 2025 – Blue Supply Chains Final Event at the Baltic Ports Climate Conference 2025, Poland
Registration opens soon.
- Surveys on ‘Future of marine fuels at ports in the BSR’ and ‘Perspective of energy companies on marine fuels around the BSR’ are being conducted right now. We invite any interested PA Ship stakeholder to participate in these surveys or in an expert interview on these topics by contacting the Lead Partner (sudhakar@hafen-hamburg.de)
- Moreover, we are also looking forward to stakeholders to participate in expert interviews on the following areas. Interested stakeholders are requested to contact the Lead Partner (sudhakar@hafen-hamburg.de)
- Approval and planning regulations for H2-DerivativesSafety handling and environmental guidelines for H2-Derivatives
- Funding frameworks for H2-Derivatives
- Interested stakeholders are also kindly invited to participate in the surveys on Communication initiatives around H2-Derivatives at ports in the BSR using the links below:
- Ports and energy providers: https://t1p.de/9lpqs
- Shipping companies: https://t1p.de/rkgti
The future of S-100 in the Baltic Sea Starts with the Baltic Sea e-Nav project. A successful rollout of the new e-navigation era requires a seamless and coherent user experience across borders. To meet this need, hydrographic offices, meteorological institutes, academia, and maritime technology providers around the Baltic Sea have joined forces in the Interreg Baltic Sea Region project, Baltic Sea e-Nav.
Baltic Sea e-Nav is dedicated to modernizing digital navigation tools and aligning them with the latest international standards, enabling national authorities and maritime organizations to ensure safer, more harmonized, and eco-efficient navigation in the Baltic Sea region. The outcome will be the launch of the Baltic Sea e-Nav base package which will contain S-101 ENC, S-102 Bathymetric Surface, S-104 Water Levels and S-111 Surface Currents.
The project is implemented between November 2023 and October 2026 with a total budget of €4.88 million, of which €3.91 million is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
And here’s the YouTube Link.
The future of safe and efficient navigation on the Baltic Sea is now, as the three Interreg Baltic Sea Region projects ORMOBASS, MaDaMe and Baltic Sea e-Nav are shaping the essential cornerstones of e-navigation in the Baltic Sea region and beyond. Each project addresses complementary challenges of the IMO e-navigation strategy to increase safety and efficiency at sea:
- ORMOBASS focuses on providing reliable navigation information using the terrestrial navigation system R-Mode and a GNSS interference detection system.
- MaDaMe concentrates on developing and piloting new digital services for information sharing and messaging, based on the IHO S-100 framework.
- Baltic Sea e-Nav works towards developing the next-generation of S-100 compliant navigation products and harmonization of the products across borders.
The Baltic Sea is one of the world’s busiest and most sensitive seas. The projects bring together stakeholders from the maritime sector and work with them to implement cross-border solutions for safe and efficient maritime transport in the Baltic Sea of the future.
We invite you to attend our joint project seminar on December 3rd 2025, at the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen or online. Take this opportunity to explore the transformation that has begun and participate in discussions with our project experts.
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