Given the entry restrictions imposed by many countries over the past year and a half, ships and crews have spent longer hours, days and months waiting offshore.

Onboard, modern maritime communication has helped keep seafarers safe and relatively comfortable, keeping them in touch with their families and updated on the evolution of the pandemic.

While radio and satellite phones remain vital tools, today’s seafarers also rely on digitally integrated systems and networks that would have been unimaginable just a decade or two ago.

Even as digital systems become commonplace, maritime communication needs are sure to keep evolving.