Preface of SENTA 2020 Proceedings

The International Conference on Marine Technology, which is more popular known as SENTA, is an annual conference organized by the Faculty of Marine Technology, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) Surabaya, Indonesia. Since 2001, the Faculty of Marine Technology – ITS has organized the annual SENTA conference, formerly known as Seminar Nasional Teknologi dan Aplikasi Kelautan (National Conference on Marine Technology and Application), which provided a regular forum for researchers and engineers in Marine Technology in Indonesia. Then in 2016, SENTA conference has turned into an international conference in order to expand its research network. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation, The 5 th International Conference on Marine Technology (SENTA 2020) held virtually on 8 December 2020. All honourable authors contributed to the conference through submissions of their research papers on all topics related to “Transformation from Archipelagic into Maritime States for Prosperous Indonesia”, including, but not limited to: Naval Architecture, Ship Production and Material Technology, Marine Robotics and Digital Ship Technology, Marine and Safety Engineering, Marine Renewable Energy, Offshore and Coastal Engineering, Shipping, Port and Maritime Logistic, also Maritime Education Training. All of the authors presented their manuscript in two plenary sessions divided into eight rooms according to their topics through zoom platform. Each author delivered their presentation for about 12 minutes. On behalf of SENTA committee, I would like to extend gratitude to all the authors who contribute to the submission of the result of their latest research. The committee of SENTA received 113 submissions. From those submissions, there were 78 papers that were presented in SENTA 2020. All the accepted paper has passed the criteria and has been reviewed by the reviewer and then the authors has revised it according to the reviews. 73 papers were accepted for publication. Also, I would like to express my grateful to the Technical Program Committee and the reviewers for their support in the reviewing process to keep the quality of manuscripts. List of Program Committees, Organizing Committees, reviewers, Organizer, Supporter are available in this pdf.