Join our webinar on 24 June and get early access to our new report on seafarer readiness in modern maritime operations.

About the series

OneOcean has partnered with maritime innovation research specialist Thetius to launch a new two-part research series examining how digitalisation is changing the reality of modern maritime operations.

The series explores how shipping has become more connected, data-rich and digitally complex, while the way crews are prepared and supported has not always kept pace.

The second report

As part of this series, we are launching two reports. The second in the series, titled Competent or compliant? Seafarer readiness in modern maritime operations, examines what crew competence means today and what operators need to do differently to build and sustain crew readiness across their fleets.

The report follows the first part of the series, Decision-optimised or overloaded? Rethinking the use of digital tools on a digitalised bridge, which examined how digital navigation is reshaping bridge operations and what this means for safety, performance and operational resilience.

Register for the webinar

To launch the report, we will host a joint webinar on Wednesday 24 June at 15:00 BST, bringing together a panel of experts to discuss the report’s findings and explore what they mean for how shipping companies build and sustain crew readiness across their fleets.

The webinar will cover why digitalisation, regulation, workload and evolving training approaches have raised the bar for what modern crews are expected to do. It will also explore why certification alone is no longer a sufficient measure of operational readiness, what genuine competence looks like in practice, and how operators can treat competence as something continuously developed through daily operations, not just periodically certified.

Webinar attendees will also receive early access to the full report.

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Why it matters

The first report showed how bridge operations have become more complex, more digital and more demanding. It raised an important follow-up question: if the operational environment has changed this much, are crews actually trained and equipped to perform in it?

Digitalisation has moved faster than the training frameworks designed to support it. Regulation is now embedded in daily operations, workloads have grown, promotion timelines have shortened, and the gap between what certification proves and what modern operations actually demand has widened.

While compliance remains essential, it does not always show whether crews are ready to manage the realities of modern maritime operations. This leaves operators needing to consider how competence is developed, maintained and applied across the fleet.