Valour Consultancy released the 2024 edition of its flagship maritime report last month. To whet your appetite for “The Future of Maritime Connectivity – 2024”, the Valour maritime team unveils a small sample of the headline statistics. 12 Maritime Connectivity Stats You Need to Know: The “Battle of the Networks” is well on its way.…
Alishia Sims, Market Research Analyst I was born just six months before the turn of the millennium, a time when my early years were filled with watching my favourite films on VHS tapes. DVD players had only just been invented a few years earlier, but they were far too expensive for us to afford. Music…
(Originally published July 2024) Inmarsat has announced the dawn of NexusWave, the new showpiece solution for Inmarsat Maritime’s operations. Before delving into the what, how, when, whether it makes sense, will it work, and whether we should get one, we thought taking a few steps back and some reflection on the company’s past activities…
Introducing Valour Consultancy’s industry-recognised maritime report: “The Future of Maritime Connectivity – 2024”. This is the fifth edition of the study, following our highly popular 2022 report which offers an in-depth analysis of the evolving landscape of connectivity in the maritime industry, highlighting significant changes that have occurred over the last two years. The “battle…
Introduction The North Atlantic hurricane season officially started on June 1st, before which date, all winds were zephyrs. The Northeast and Central Pacific season started on May 15th. Every major ocean has its season, and these signify a degradation in satellite communication. In this article, we look at the impact this will have on maritime users. …
Valour Consultancy is delighted to share the latest episode in our Meet The CEO video series. In the run-up to the publication of our flagship report on The Future of Maritime Connectivity, our Market Research Analyst, Alishia Sims, recently interviewed Nabil Ben Soussia, CCO of IEC Telecom Group: a company that is a key player…
European satellite operator, SES, has announced its plans to acquire the U.S. satellite operator and service provider, Intelsat, in a $3.1bn takeover. The move comes after provisional discussions over a merger ended in the summer of 2023. In this article, Valour Consultancy examines what this means in the context of major mobility verticals. Commercial…
Introduction As alluded to in a previous article, there is a fundamental difference between fossil fuels being used for energy production and renewable energy production notwithstanding the ecological and climate benefits. This difference is point of generation (PoG). Fossil fuels must be recovered from the earth and transported to where they can be used. For…
Introducing Valour Consultancy’s brand-new report: The Future of Smart Shipping – 2024. The second edition to our highly popular 2020 report offers an in-depth analysis of the evolving landscape of smart shipping in the maritime industry, highlighting significant changes that have taken place over the last four years. In the wake of global disruptions, the…
We recently released the latest installment of our Maritime Connectivity Tracker, including some new segmentations and features on Starlink, as well as annualised revenues per service provider. This service supplements our flagship report on The Future of Maritime Connectivity. Valour Consultancy runs this service on a quarterly basis, and is designed to keep those with…
Late in November 2023, our Director of Maritime, Joshua Flood, was given the opportunity to attend Marlink’s maritime analysts and press briefing session in London. Joshua provides a summary below of the inner workings of Marlink: “Held in a boutique hotel in Soho, London, the briefing session was in quite a chic location. Erik Ceuppens…
Valour Consultancy’s brand new report, “The Future Market of Cellular Technologies (5G) in Maritime – 2023” is our first edition exploring this unknown segment of the maritime connectivity market. With the fast-evolving deployment of hybrid connectivity solutions and growing use of SD-WAN technology, this piece of research sheds light upon this previously unexplored subject. By the…