Valour Deep Dive: IFEC in the Middle East

Aviation

IFEC Market Tracker Update (Q1 2025) We recently released our Q1 2025 IFEC Tracker deliverables, which means it’s time for another deep dive. In this article we’ll take a look at IFEC-related activity in the Middle East, a region renowned for thought leadership, innovation and high standards. In this part of the world, we find…

Valour Consultancy Estimates 37,000 Trains to Offer Passenger Wi-Fi by 2034, Thanks to LEO and Improvements to Trackside

Mobility, Press Releases

June 18th 2025, 15:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) According to a new first edition report by Valour Consultancy, ‘The Future of Connectivity in Rail – 2025’, the number of trains offering passenger Wi-Fi services onboard will rise to 37,000 by 2034, up from an estimated 12,000 today. Renowned as a challenging platform for connectivity because…

What is Advanced Air Mobility, Anyway?

Aviation

In major news this week, U.S. President Trump signed an executive order (EO) aimed at “Unleashing American Drone Dominance”, potentially turbocharging development of the wider advanced air mobility (AAM) market. However, in reading the order, and in speaking with the market at large when carrying out the research for our forthcoming report, “The Future of…

Maritime Connectivity Tracker May 2025

Maritime

We recently released the Q2 2025 update of data from our Maritime Connectivity Tracker, featuring new insights on Inmarsat’s NexusWave activations, Starlink deployments, Starlink Maritime revenues, offshore energy sub-segments, and annualised revenues per service provider. This service complements our flagship report, “The Future of Maritime Connectivity”. Valour Consultancy produces this tracker on a quarterly basis,…

Quantum Shipping Theory

Maritime

Introduction Leaving aside the economic effects of the recent tariff impositions, there are also serious and complicated consequences for the logistics of maritime sailings. It would be remiss of Valour Consultancy not to comment on this development. This has been highlighted by the increase in cancelled sailings in the Transpacific, Transatlantic, and Asia-North Europe &…