IHI will join to a special seminar at “BARI-SHIP 2025”, an international maritime exhibition held in Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture as a speaker.

"BARI-SHIP 2025" is an international maritime exhibition held in Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan's largest maritime hub. This marks the 9th edition of the event. BARI-SHIP serves as a platform for maritime industry professionals from not only Japan but also around the world to engage in business matching and information exchange. On May 23, IHI will deliver a presentation titled "VDES Initiatives in Japan" at the "Satellite VDES Consortium Seminar.“
　
IHI has positioned the aero engine and rocket sector as a growth business in "Group Management Policies 2023", and is advancing initiatives to utilize data from space, land, and underwater. As part of this, IHI has been working on the "Development and Demonstration of Maritime Domain Awareness Technology Using Communication Satellite Constellations for Ships" under the Economic Security Important Technology Development Program1 from April 2023, with the aim of enhancing ship monitoring using satellites. This involves the development of Satellite VDES2, a next-generation maritime communication infrastructure that enables the capture of ship location information and mutual communication. In addition, towards the social implementation of Satellite VDES, in 2022, we established the "Satellite VDES Consortium" in collaboration with MOL Techno-Trade, Ltd., FURUNO ELECTRIC Co., Ltd., ArkEdge Space Co., Ltd., TST Corporation, Japan Radio Co., Ltd., Mitsui & Co., Ltd., and the Ocean Policy Research Institute of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, and as the representative , we are promoting the activities of the consortium.

At "BARI-SHIP 2025," where 380 companies from 24 countries are expected to exhibit and over 20,000 attendees are anticipated, we will introduce solutions utilizing satellite VDES. Through this, we aim to promote the implementation of Satellite VDES worldwide and advance the realization of a safer and more secure maritime environment.

◇Seminar Detail
Exhibition Name : BARI-SHIP 2025 （2025/5/22～2025/5/24）
Date of seminar : 2025/05/23　13:10～14:00
Name of seminar : BARI-SHIP 2025 Special seminar 「Satellite VDES Consortium Seminar」
Theme : 「VDES in Japan: Current Efforts and Future Prospects」

• 1 : A program led by the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to promote research and development of cutting-edge technologies that are important for economic security.

• 2 : Satellite VDES (VHF Data Exchange System) is an extended system of the AIS (Automatic Identification System), which is already widely used for ship operation and maritime traffic management as a device for reporting the position of one's own ship. By using satellites, it can transmit and receive on a global scale, and its mutual communication function enables coordination even on the high seas.

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