Shipdex Showcased at EastMed 2025: A Resounding Step Forward for Digital Standardization in Maritime Documentation

Shipdex (www.shipdex.org) proudly participated in the renowned EastMed Maritime Exhibition 2025, held in Limassol from March 23rd to 25th, where the growing relevance of standardized digital documentation took center stage. As Chairman of Shipdex, I had the privilege of presenting the latest developments of our protocol and engaging directly with a wide range of maritime equipment suppliers, shipowners, and technology providers. The exhibition provided an excellent platform to promote the value of Shipdex as the industry’s most effective solution for managing and distributing technical manuals in a structured, XML-based format.

The conversations held at EastMed 2025 reinforced what we already know: the maritime sector urgently needs a common standard to reduce the administrative burden of documentation, eliminate redundant data entries, and create a streamlined process for integrating supplier manuals into shipowners’ technical systems. Shipdex delivers exactly that.

Why Shipdex?

For equipment suppliers, Shipdex offers the following compelling benefits:

  • Reduced Costs and Effort: By authoring content once in Shipdex format, suppliers can automatically deliver standardized, validated, and easily reusable documentation to multiple clients, saving time and translation costs. Information in Shipdex format can also be reused to produce SCORM compliant Computer Based Trainings.
  • Improved Data Accuracy: The structured format of Shipdex significantly reduces errors and inconsistencies across documents, improving user confidence and operational safety.
  • Increased Marketability: As more shipowners adopt Shipdex-based documentation systems, suppliers who can deliver manuals in Shipdex format are increasingly preferred.
  • Digital Integration: Shipdex facilitates seamless integration with ship management systems (ERP, PMS, etc), enabling real-time access, updates, and smart search functions.
  • Support for IMO Digitalization Goals: Shipdex aligns with the IMO’s broader objective of digitalization and data harmonization in shipping, making it a future-proof investment.

The enthusiastic feedback received at EastMed 2025 reflects the industry’s growing recognition that the time has come to move away from PDFs and unstructured formats toward structured, smart and standardized electronic content. Several key suppliers expressed strong interest in adopting Shipdex, especially in light of the increasing demand for automated lifecycle data management across vessel types and fleets.

We thank the organizers of EastMed 2025 for creating a professional, high-impact event that brought together thought leaders and innovators in the region. For Shipdex, the exhibition served as a key milestone in our mission to drive digital efficiency, standardization, and sustainability within maritime documentation.

Shipdex continues to invite suppliers, shipowners, and IT providers to join our growing community. By working together under a shared standard, we can achieve a smarter, safer, and more connected maritime industry.

Capt. Eugen-Henning Adami
Chairman, Shipdex

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The message from Mr. Henrik Dan Kaspersen, MAN Energy Solutions’ Shipdex Competence Center Leader, and Executive Member of Shipdex since 2008

“Congratulations Capt. Adami on your excellent presentation of Shipdex, which has the power to replace the traditional paper/page-based feeding of the Shipowners’ and Ship managers’ planned-maintenance systems with a digital end-to-end process.

Shipowners and Ship managers are, via our Service Letter SL24-761, requesting free-of-charge datasets at scale for their two-stroke engines, to pursue the benefits of this digital process, thus proving the potential of this maritime standard.

Software companies are encouraged to use the contact details in the Service Letter to request free-of-charge demo datasets for feasibility study, or, alternatively request vessel specific datasets, in agreement with the Shipowner or Ship manager concerned”.

”The Shipdex Standard brings us together – Together we set standards”.

 

MAN Energy Solutions, Henrik Dan Kaspersen”