The primary aim of Work Package 6 is to analize and validate the use case of STM for tanker shipping, with major focus on safety of navigation. A serious approach to verification will contribute to ensure safe and successful adoption of any new technology and will also help securing expected benefits with respect to safety, efficiency and environmental sustainability. Based on the services that will be applied to the use cases, relevant evaluation, validation and verification methods will be derived in the first stage of the project. The aimed impact on safety is taken as the basis as well as the effects on efficiency and sustainable transport of tankers in the Baltic Sea for this evaluation. The main methods consist of Pre/Post data analysis (i.e. before and after introduction) and Interview-based analysis of perceived values which give a picture of the effects that the services have achieved.

Relevant safety assessment methodologies will be applied to describe the relative changes in safety that the services will imply. Typical hazards connected to the tanker shipping will be described as well as root causes, consequences and risk-reducing measures. Cost-benefit considerations will be made in the safety assessment. The output of the WP6 will describe and highlight the impact that automated services derived based on the STM platform will give on tanker traffic in the Baltic.