Intelligent Ship Transport System - Introduction to the Maritime ICT Reference Architecture

This report gives an overview of the background for the ISTS project. This includes the role of digitalization in reaching the UN sustainable development goals as well as a discussion of the benefits of digitalization and standardization (section 2 and 3). A main point is that digitalization is essential in reaching the sustainable development goals, but that the maritime sector is small compared to others, and that standards and international cooperation are required to accelerate digitalization in the sector.
Section four goes on to give an overview of a suggested maritime reference ICT architecture (MIRA) that can be used to facilitate harmonized standardization in the sector, without losing the
opportunity to develop the different components separately.