SWOT MARCOM
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SWOT analyse fra MARCOM
High North Challenges
This case will see upon the challenges in ship operation in the High North and see if the solutions from the other cases can be copied to a more northern environment. Some of the focus areas in this case will be; monitoring of ship operations and environment, security and territorial control, metrology, and Safety and Rescue operations.
Strenght
  • Learned about the special needs regarding navigation in the northern regions seen from different interest groups,
    • Users, Content providers (AIS, meteorology, others..), Communications (Satellite,….), Local terrestrial (Special restrictions), Government (Traffic control,…)
  • Seen the ”on site” conditions
  • New contacts in different fields of interest
  • Increasing interest du to more traffic, exploration activities, etc.
Weaknesses
  • Lack of
    • Funding
    • Multinational coordination
    • Standards
  • Small user groups – weak market strength
  • No common agenda between the projects
Treaths
  • No structured results of the research
    • Will die out?
    • Not be followed up?
  • Decreased dedicated funding for research in maritime challenges in the high North
  • No international involvement
  • Lack of bandwidth, coverage
Opportuneties
  • Common national priorities and needs, i e
    • Frequencies
    • Standards
    • Promote maritime industry
  • Exchange of information between projects
  • Exploit international network
  • New workshops with focus on selected topics