The Norwegian related company, MARIS Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, was given the Minister's Innovation Award from Singapore's Ministry of Transport on 10th November 2009. Mr Bhupesh Gandhi, Director Asia Paific, was presented with the award in recognition of the contribution towards the project "Wireless Broadband Maritime Services at Sea".
More information about MARIS can be found at www.maris.no.
The Research Council of Norway and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore has had an MOU on maritime research and development since 2000. Maritime communications is one of the fields covered by this MOU.