Development a cloud-based ship management platforms

Major technological trends that will impact the transport field can be found in the information and communications technologies domain and constitute key enablers for the roll-out of “intelligent” transport applications also maritime. Cloud Computing (CC) is one of these technological trends, and in its various forms provides solutions for the computing and data intensive tasks. The objective of the paper is to analyse the value of new initiatives connected with the use of cloud computing technology in ship management platforms.