Biodiversity & Environmental Monitoring

Maritime activities have a direct impact on the environment—affecting air quality, water ecosystems, underwater noise levels, and even fisheries. To better understand and manage these effects, the industry increasingly relies on environmental monitoring systems that provide real-time data on key indicators such as emissions, pollution, and biodiversity health.

These tools help ports, shipping companies, and offshore operators evaluate their environmental footprint and align with global sustainability goals. Monitoring air and water quality, tracking noise pollution, and assessing the impact on marine life are now essential steps toward more responsible maritime operations.

As sustainability becomes a core expectation from regulators and communities alike, the maritime sector must adopt transparent, data-driven approaches. Reducing environmental impact is not only a regulatory necessity but also a strategic opportunity to enhance resilience and gain societal support.

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Environmental Monitoring & Sustainability

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Biodiversity & Environmental Monitoring

How to Protect the Marine Biodiversity?

Explore the leading maritime companies across the globe that are at the forefront of sustainable practices. Learn how these industry leaders align with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to create a positive impact on the environment and society.

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Biodiversity & Environmental Monitoring

What is marine mammal bycatch?

The fishing industry involves a variety of actors, including commercial fishermen, fish farmers, seafood processors, distributors, retailers, and government agencies.

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Biodiversity & Environmental Monitoring

Which SDGs are linked to the sea and how to support them?

Dive into the intricate relationship between the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the vast expanse of the sea. Discover how you can contribute to the preservation of our oceans and marine life while supporting these crucial global objectives.

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Biodiversity & Environmental Monitoring

High Seas Treaty: Challenges and Opportunities

The High Seas Treaty is the first-ever legal framework established by the United Nations to protect biodiversity in international waters. The treaty’s implementation will impact biodiversity loss, pollution, and global warming.

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Biodiversity & Environmental Monitoring

What are Marine Energy Resources?

Countries are accelerating their energy transition with the fight against climate change. They are actively exploring alternative solutions for electricity generation.

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Biodiversity & Environmental Monitoring

How Can Air Pollution be Monitored?

Thanks to the expansion of industrial and commercial activities in cities, factories, and ports, air pollution in these areas have significantly risen to the point where it has turned into a threat to both human and animal health, as well as the environment.

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Biodiversity & Environmental Monitoring

What is Blue Economy?

Blue economy refers to an integrated approach based on the sustainable use of the oceans and coastal areas to deal with environmental degradation and resource depletion.

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Biodiversity & Environmental Monitoring

What are the Four Types of Environmental Monitoring?

The four types of environmental monitoring: air quality, water quality, noise quality, and biodiversity. Environmental monitoring is composed of tools and techniques that identify, analyze, and establish parameters for environmental conditions to quantifiably assess the impacts of various activities on the environment.

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Biodiversity & Environmental Monitoring

What Is the Purpose of Dredging?

Dredging is essential for ports to remain in operation. However, understanding why and how dredging works can be complicated. Therefore, we will explain the purpose of dredging and all that it entails for ports.

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Biodiversity & Environmental Monitoring

Air Quality 101

Gain a comprehensive understanding of air quality and its impact on health, the environment, and port operations. Stay informed on the latest initiatives and technologies aimed at improving air quality in ports.

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Biodiversity & Environmental Monitoring

Why Monitoring Water Quality Is Important

Monitoring water quality is critical for the environment, health, and port operations. Learn about the importance of water quality and stay informed on the latest technologies and initiatives aimed at improving water quality in ports.

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Shipping

10 Biggest Shipping Companies in the World 

In this article, we’ll explore the top 10 largest global shipping companies as measured by TEU. The TEU is used as a unit of measurement that is used to determine cargo capacity and is derived from the dimensions of the standard 20-foot shipping container. 

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Shipping

Why choose sea freight over air freight?

Discover the advantages of choosing sea freight over air freight for your shipping needs. From cost savings to capacity considerations, explore why sea freight is a more cost-effective and efficient option for transporting goods internationally.

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Why Should I Care About the Environment?

We may not always realize it, but the environment affects us every day both long term and short term. 

As 90 percent of goods are shipped by sea, evidently the maritime sector has a big impact on economic activity and equally a big impact on the environment. With maritime activities and environmental impacts increasing every year, we must care more about the Earth’s health. 

When ports and shipping companies focus on reducing their environmental impacts, they also increase their business efficiency. For example, when shipping companies use less fuel or other sources of energy, they are reducing their environmental impact while decreasing costs. When ports focus on reducing port congestion, they reduce fuel emissions which helps the surrounding community, yet they also make their port more efficient. Caring for the environment in fact cultivates economic growth while positively impacting the human population, marine life, and wildlife.

The maritime industry must also prepare for non-renewable resources to continue to decrease. They must therefore use renewable and less harmful energy sources. This switch is often digital, encompassing Smart Ports and Smart Ships. 

Human health, natural resources, the ecosystem, economic growth, and future generations are all impacted by how we treat our environment. 

What Is Environmental Monitoring?

Environmental monitoring uses real-time data, Artificial Intelligence, and advanced monitoring systems connected to sensors to give key environmental indicators so that maritime actors can reduce pollution and decrease environmental impacts. These key indicators help measure air, water, and noise pollution.

Digitalization and real-time data allow maritime actors to more efficiently measure environmental impacts than with past techniques that only use sampling and lab tests.

Environmental monitoring helps maritime actors to assess risk and generate risk assessment and impact reports. It also helps maritime actors to have more support from the surrounding community. 

Environmental monitoring reduces the short-term and long-term environmental impacts of maritime activities, contributing to more national support for ports and shipping companies. 

Digital automated monitoring systems are essential for the future of maritime activities and the future of the impact on air, water, and noise quality for the human population.

The demand for environmental monitoring is increasing worldwide, and there exist many types of environmental monitoring analyses including water quality monitoring, air quality monitoring, and noise quality monitoring.