Shipping is always a joint undertaking of humans and their technology. The increasing usage of the oceans for transportation, fishing, exploration and even recreation increase threats for humans, the environment and even the economy in case of disrupted supply chains. Consequently, the challenge faced by marine engineers and the scientific community is designing save and environment friendly maritime systems.

In order to facilitate research in the domain of integrated and save maritime supervision, control and assistance technology, the PhD program "Save Automation of Maritime Systems (SAMS)" was approved and initiated.