Maritime leaders from Brazil have joined together to create a cluster that will develop artificial intelligence for the maritime sector and autonomous ships.

Intelsat has announced a deal with Brazilian company Mareste Equipamentos e Serviços de Telecomunicação, under which the South American service provider which will use Intelsat capacity to deliver communications for maritime customers with small vessels.

Helm Operations reports that SAAM SMIT Towage Brazil has selected its Helm Marine Operations software for the management of billing and dispatch.

Maersk Training’s new centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is to implement integrated DP, navigation, and offshore operations simulators from Kongsberg Maritime.

Shipbuilding software developer AVEVA has announced that it is to expand use of its training programs with Brazilian universities, with federal universities in Pernambuco and Pará states to implement AVEVA’s engineering and design software from the AVEVA Plant and AVEVA Marine portfolios within their engineering course curriculum.