Information sharing is becoming an indispensable aspect of the commercial shipping business landscape. As the link between ship and shore becomes integral to overall vessel operations and increasingly critical to commercial success, shipowners across Asia are viewing satcoms infrastructure in a new light. Satcoms was traditionally treated as a standalone solution, deployed to address a particular issue. Often the 'issue' was the welfare of crews spending weeks at a time on long ocean crossings with limited opportunity to stay in touch with their families, friends and the outside world in general. Consequently, the antenna system and associated below-deck hardware were regarded by owners as an additional expense and a resource for distracting crew members from their duties, necessary to prevent crew from jumping ship to rival companies offering better onboard connectivity.
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