{"id":693,"date":"2026-04-18T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:56:37","slug":"amura-at-the-60th-general-assembly-of-the-european-maritime-pilots-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/index.php\/en\/2026\/04\/18\/amura-at-the-60th-general-assembly-of-the-european-maritime-pilots-association\/","title":{"rendered":"AMURA at the 60th General Assembly of the European Maritime Pilots\u2019 Association"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The 60th General Assembly of the European Maritime Pilots\u2019 Association (EMPA)<\/strong>), held on 14 and 15 April in Ghent under the slogan\u00a0<em>&#8216;Navigating the Past, Steering the Future&#8217;<\/em>, brought together port pilots and representatives of the maritime sector from all over Europe in one of the most important meetings on the international maritime scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Airam Rodr\u00edguez, CEO of H\u00edades Business Patterns<\/strong>, participated in the Training &amp; Technical session sharing the stage with\u00a0<strong>Sergio Cabrera Bona, who presented the EGNOS project, and Jan-Niklaas Brons,<\/strong>\u00a0which addressed the legal impact and responsibility of European practitioners, in a session chaired by\u00a0<strong>Jos\u00e9 Antonio P\u00e9rez, Vice president of EMPA.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4984-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4984-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4984-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4984-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4984-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4984-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4984-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4984-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4984-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width:767px) 480px, (max-width:1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his speech, Airam presented the new updates of\u00a0<strong>EMPAsafe<\/strong>, the tool developed under the brand\u00a0<strong>Amura<\/strong>\u00a0for EMPA, which continues to evolve as a key solution to improve communication and notification of deficiencies in real time, contributing directly to the safety of practitioners in their daily operations. Today EMPAsafe registers activity in <strong>26 countries, with users in Europe and Canada<\/strong>. Among the novelties presented in Ghent are the possibility of selecting multiple base ports, the automatic validation of the IMO number, a new option to record whether a deficiency has been notified to the competent authority, and an improved notification logic that distinguishes if an incident was detected on the arrival or departure of the ship, automatically directing the notices to the most relevant organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the participation in Ghent went further. Airam also conveyed to the attendees one of the great milestones of Spanish port digitalization:<strong>\u00a0the Spanish Maritime Data Space (EDME),<\/strong>\u00a0A strategic digital infrastructure that allows for the secure, interoperable and governed exchange of data between port authorities and actors in the maritime ecosystem. A federated and sovereign space where each participant maintains control of its information, sharing it under a common framework of trust and governance, and promoting greater operational efficiency, improved decision-making, increased maritime security and logistics optimization in real time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This international recognition reinforces EDME&#8217;s position as a benchmark in Europe, consolidating Spain as a leader in the digital transformation of the maritime-port sector. The project already has been validated in real environments and continues to grow with the incorporation of new port nodes, demonstrating that interoperability is already a reality in our port system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Ghent, with a clear vision: data is the new engine of the maritime ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We thank Miguel Vieira de Castro and EMPA for the opportunity to participate in such a well-organized event, and we take away valuable conversations and new opportunities for collaboration to continue advancing maritime safety through innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EDME\u00a0project has been funded by the European Union \u2013 NextGenerationEU, under the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 60th General Assembly of the European Maritime Pilots\u2019 Association (EMPA)), held on 14 and 15 April in Ghent under the slogan\u00a0&#8216;Navigating the Past, Steering the<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,104,102,112],"tags":[149,128,184],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-empasafe","category-events","category-news","category-projects","tag-europe","tag-pilotage","tag-port-digitalisation-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amurasolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}