Whoever controls the world’s maritime transport flows controls the world. This phrase has, over the centuries, guided everyone from Christopher Columbus and the East India Companies of the seventeenth–nineteenth centuries to US President Donald Trump.
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Estonian Maritime Academy participates in cross-border initiative to enhance transparency, resilience, and sustainability in global transport chains.
Ukraine’s wartime shipping proves that, even under attack, trade can continue – with ingenuity, international cooperation and flexible infrastructure.
The Estonian deep-tech company MindChip, the first official spin-off from TalTech, is developing an AI-powered autonomous captain – an intelligent system capable of independently navigating a vessel, assessing situations, and responding to the surrounding environment.
The hydrodynamics laboratory at Kuressaare College Marine Technology competence centre houses the only specialised model testing basin in the Baltic region, with impressive dimensions: 60 metres long, five metres wide, and three metres deep.