The Asia Navigation Conference 2021 Successfully Concluded
On the afternoon of 20th October, the Asia Navigation Conference 2021 was Successfully Concluded in Tianjin Water Transport Engineering Research Institute of Ministry of Transport. More than 2,800 experts, scholars as well as front-line scientists from China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and other countries attended the conference both offline and online.
On behalf of the organizers, Zhang Baochen, executive vice-president of the China Institute of Navigation, expressed his sincere gratitude to the special guests, experts and scholars, co-organizers, contributors, and participants from Asian countries. He said that this conference is of a high level academic conference in Asian Maritime field. During the two-day conference, we achieved the purpose of mutual learning and mutual reference by sharing, and we also achieved fruitful results as well, which would definitely play a positive role in facilitating the development among the Asian navigation discipline, technology, and talent training. He expressed his sincere wish that the Asia Navigation Conference would continue to develop in a more professional and international direction and provide platforms and opportunities for enhancing academic exchange and enriching minds and presenting enlightenments for future action in the maritime field.
The representatives of the Japan Institute of Navigation, the rotating organizer of the next conference, introduced the preparations upon the 2022 conference. He said that due to the uncertain situation of the epidemic, the conference is tentatively planned to be held online on November 5 to 6, 2022. If conditions permit, an offline conference may be held in Tokyo, which will be negotiated again by the trilateral institutes of navigation over China, Japan and Korea early next year.
Viet Thanh Nguyen, the deputy dean of the School of Civil Engineering in Hanoi University of Transport, expressed his gratitude for the invitation to attend this conference. He said that the annual conference served as a platform for Asian countries to advance the mutual understanding as well as future cooperation in the maritime field. He hoped to continue to strengthen multilateral cooperation in the maritime field between Vietnam and Asian countries in the future.
Zhang Huaqin, president of Tianjin Water Transport Engineering Research Institute of Ministry of Transport, said that this annual academic conference will further strengthen the cooperation and give impetus to the continuous improvement of maritime science and technology in Asian countries, including China, Japan and Korea, by discussing the advanced development of intelligent navigation, issuing the technical problems of shipping safety, promoting common shipping interdisciplinary integration, and drawing up a beautiful blueprint for navigation. It is expected that the Asian shipping science and technology cooperation will develop to a higher level in the future and the results of cooperation will benefit more people. He explained the institute, which mainly conducts the basic, applied fundamental and major engineering technology research in the field of water transportation engineering, and launches extensive international scientific and technological cooperation, while researching and solving scientific and engineering problems in China's important water transportation and ocean construction.The institute has the world's largest wave tank, Asia's leading geo-centrifugal technology and advanced DC wind tunnel and other scientific research facilities, which are open to the world.
During two days of academic seminars, more than 70 reports and papers were presented at the conference. Six papers of this year were awarded at the conference. Application of Correlation Rules in Total Loss Accidents recommended by China Institute of Navigation won the first prize, Research on Training, Assessment and Certification of Off-Duty Crew Members of Domestic Large Cruise Ships recommended by the China Institute of Navigation won the third prize, and four papers from the Tokyo Maritime University, Fujitsu Corporation, Korea Maritime University and Changwon National University, recommended by the Japan and Korea Institute of Navigation, won the second and third prizes respectively.
