Oceanly, a leading provider of fleet performance solutions, has highlighted what it says are exploitative practices surrounding data ownership in the shipping industry. Its Managing Director, Giampiero Soncini, has issued a bold statement condemning the attempts by some maritime equipment suppliers to profiteer from shipowners by charging for access to their own operational data.
“In recent years, the question of ‘Who owns data in shipping?’ has been increasingly discussed at conferences and in...