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HUB Ocean
partnership
Mercuria and HUB Ocean have had an important
strategic partnership since May of 2021. Established in
2019 by the Aker Group and the World Economic Forum
network of Fourth Industrial Revolution Centres
worldwide.
HUB Ocean is based in Oslo, Norway and is a non-profit,
technological foundation that is dedicated to unlocking
and sharing ocean data. It is the first thematic Centre
dedicated to the ocean.
HUB Ocean’s core product, the Ocean Data Platform
(ODP), allows aggregation of unprecedented volumes of
diverse ocean data sets. ODP itself is a global, opensource and integrated digital data ecosystem providing
new and faster insight for the ocean we need and want.
The partnership will bring about many synergies by
combining Mercuria’s expertise in the global maritime
industry with HUB Ocean’s expertise as an international provider of market-leading ocean and maritime
technological solutions. For example, experts from Hub Ocean and Mercuria participated together in the
program of the inaugural Summit of the Villars Institute, a Swiss foundation that aims to accelerate the
transition to a Net Zero and Nature Positive economy through intergenerational collaboration and systems
leadership.
In 2022, our collaboration with HUB Ocean extended to begin the creation of a new citizen science app built
on the ODP for seafarers, following market research on how such an app might be used was completed by a
team of summer students. Seafarers have a unique opportunity to collect ocean data and observe things that
the rest of us cannot, and Mercuria has more than 500 seafarers working on the group’s vessels globally.
Worldwide there are close to 2 million seafarers.
