• Under WP 3: Student Exchange to TAMU, one USN student is going to TAMUG from March to May 2026. The stduent is: Liga Jakobsena (Master, Female) Liga’s master thesis title is “Evaluation of general-purpose Large Language Models performance (knowledge) and readiness for the Maritime industry”, to be defended at USN in June 2026.   Under…

  • A review of four core maritime journals presented at an international conference in China

    Two research from the TIDE project were presented at the The 5th Annual Conference on Port and Shipping Economic Systems Engineering cum The 3rd Conference on Transport and Supply Chain Resilience and Digital Transformation in November 2025 at the Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU). Professor Ziaul Haque Munim presented a plenary presentation on “Risk…

  • TIDE project participants attend IAME 2025 conference in Bergen

    Both Japanese exchanges students at USN Yota Sasada and Kenta Kowatari, Associate Professor Ryuichi Shibasaki (Japan), Professor Ziaul Haque Munim (Norway), Professor Halvor Schøyen (Norway), and Professor Jean-Paul Rodrigue (USA), attended and presented research papers at the Annual conference of the International Association Maritime Economists (IAME) in June 2025 in Bergen, Norway.

  • TIDE project participants attends Nor-Shipping 2025

    Japanese exchanges students Yota Sasada and Kenta Kowatari, and USN students as well as faculty members attended the Nor-Shipping 2025 industry conference event. Nor-Shipping 2025 marked the 60th anniversary of one of the world’s most influential maritime industry gatherings. Held in Oslo and Lillestrøm, the event served as a strategic global arena where shipowners, technology…

  • Two students from the University of Tokyo completes 3 months exchange at University of South-Eastern Norway in 2025

    Two students from the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) completed 3 months exchange at University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) from April to June 2025 funded by the TIDE project. One of the students was Yota Sasada (bachelor level) and another Kenta Kowatari (master level). In addition, two PhD students from the University of Tokyo also completed…

  • TIDE project kicks-off  on February 2025

    Technological Innovations for Digitalization and Efficiency in the Maritime sector (TIDE) project was approved NOK 2.99 million funding by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir) undet UTFORSK 2024 funding call. The kickoff meeting of the project with all partners was held on February 12, 2025.  Project summary The TIDE project responds to…