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Sponsors

Diamond Sponsor

Inmarsat

www.inmarsat.com/maritime

Defining Connectivity at Sea

I
nmarsat has been connecting the maritime terms of ship-to-shore, shore-to-ship or ship-to-

world for over 35 years since being set up by the ship communications or through the facilitation
International Maritime Organization (IMO) toof communication across the multitude of

enable ships to stay in constant touch with shore stakeholders involved in this truly international
and to call for help in an emergency. Starting outindustry.

as a provider of maritime safety services, Inmarsat London International Shipping Week (LISW)
has, like the entire maritime industry, never stood is the ideal platform for the latter, bringing

still. Now the leader in global mobile satellite together all sectors of the shipping business to
communications, it has thousands of vessels relying work together to create the future of tomorrow.

on its unrivalled end-to-end service availabilityInmarsat is pleased to be the headline sponsor
and coverage, not just for safety services but for of LISW for the second time and will be involved

operational communications and crew welfare in a number of key events during the week
too. Its next generation, Global Xpress network,including Ship Eficiency: The Event 2015, on

is designed to facilitate the further changing 8-9 September. Exploring and promoting how to

landscape of the maritime industry, supporting the improve proitability and eficiency of operations
evolution towards the truly connected ship and within the maritime industry, the event will bring

enabling intelligent connectivity.focus to the evolution of satellite communications
The leet of high throughput satellites, whose as a fundamental driver of productivity, not to

network has been designed for mobility, will offermention safety and crew welfare. The digital ship
a unique combination of seamless global Ka-band is here today. What we need to talk about now

coverage from a single operator, allowing Inmarsat is the concept of the connected ship, and having
to deliver the world’s irst globally available, high- smart connectivity to someplace or someone. New

speed mobile broadband service. Its capabilities technology will be used to improve operating costs,
allow Inmarsat to build a service layer across its reduce the environmental footprint and the overall

network that will deliver value-added solutions to eficiency with which goods are transported around

the maritime community. This ‘Inmarsat Service the world.
Enablement Platform’ is designed to support the London is a uniquely international hub and

development of the applications that will ultimately its importance to the maritime industry is
drive the technology ecosystem within maritime, underpinned by a history of experience and

by providing the revolutionary ability to allow innovation that has continually moved the industry
bandwidth to be controlled by the application, forward. A legacy that, as a London-based business,

facilitating the segmentation of trafic and Inmarsat is not only proud to be a part of but
associated billing.as one of the businesses at the forefront of the

Connecting the global maritime community is next generation of innovation, is also proud to be
an increasingly important factor in the success of promoting during London International Shipping

today’s changing shipping ecosystem. Whether inWeek 2015.

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