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IMIS Global presented a paper at the Austrian Maritime Safety Authority Nav18 conference on the use of AIS messages, finding that a significant portion of Application Specific Messages are not regularly used.

The IMIS paper "VHF Data Exchange System: A maritime communications technology for information sharing" was presented to the e-Navigation Underway conference, focused on the benefits of VDES.

IMIS and Stone Three arranged a one-day VDES conference in Somerset West, Cape Town, South Africa, followed by the IALA WG3 Intersessional meeting.

MariWeb version 7 has been installed for the Canadian Coast Guard, connecting more than 100 redundant AIS base stations nationally across 12 regions to a redundant central environment.

IMIS has joined the datAcron H2020 European Union Horizon 2020 research project as a partner, contributing its maritime information systems expertise to the consortium.

With MariWeb V6, IMIS has delivered an AIS network capable of handling more than 130,000 simultaneous active AIS targets, fully compliant with IEC, ITU, NMEA and IALA specifications.

The IMIS presentation at Simons Town, South Africa, focused on the veracity of AIS data — ensuring received data can be trusted or is flagged as suspicious.

IMIS Global supplied MariWeb version 5 to the Comisión Administradora del Río de la Plata (CARP) to monitor traffic and dredging activities on the Rio De La Plata.

IMIS, along with ORBCOMM and Stone Three, arranged a one-day maritime security conference at the CSIR in Pretoria, South Africa.

IMIS deployed MariWeb version 6 for ORBCOMM, enabling processing, storage and distribution of satellite AIS data using the IALA Recommended Logical Shore Station configuration.

IMIS hosted a technology seminar in Guayaquil, Ecuador, featuring speakers from ORBCOMM, Kelvin Hughes, WildAid, InfoPront and the WWF, with more than 100 participants from the maritime community.

IMIS presented a paper at the Wild Aid Global MPA Enforcement conference covering the Turkey example of using Class B AIS with special messages to monitor and manage the national fishing vessel fleet.

IMIS, working with Australian Maritime Systems, installed MariWeb version 4 for the Canadian Coast Guard's national AIS network, connecting more than 100 base stations tracking over 100,000 AIS-equipped ships.

IMIS and Australian Maritime Systems installed MariWeb version 4 for Turkey's Maritime Ministry, connecting more than 35 AIS base stations including the Turkish Class B specification for fishing vessels.

The MariWeb system in Croatia was expanded with a further 13 AIS base stations along the Adriatic coastline, featuring the latest redundant AIS Base Station Controllers by IMIS Global.

IMIS has designed and installed a MariWeb system for Shipping and Signalling Systems, a shipping information management company based in Belgium.

IMIS deployed MariWeb version 2 on an industrial controller for Dragages Ports in Le Havre, providing AIS traffic visibility across the Le Havre port area from a single AIS receiver.

IMIS worked with SFMX to deploy its Maritime Information Management System, integrating AIS data, manual vessel data entry, existing ships and voyage data, and SFMX customer contact details in a single environment.