🏅 Top Autonomous Ships
UK and Japan work together to accelerate autonomous shipping
· UK and Japanese stakeholders have teamed up to develop a regulatory framework for the safe adoption of autonomous ships. Lloyd’s Register (LR) and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) led discussions during a workshop in early March involving representatives from key Japanese authorities as well as shipping lines for the design of the ...
3 days ago
UK and Japan align efforts to accelerate maritime autonomy
· Japan’s goal is to see ships operating at the equivalent of LR’s autonomy level 4 (AL4) within its waters by 2026, with physical demonstrator ships sailing by the middle of 2025. In line with these aims, LR and NPL have agreed to promote the acceleration of verification and validation in line with technology development and deployment, including those related to collision avoidance and ...
4 days ago
Establishing European leadership in autonomous shipping
· Autonomous ships, equipped with operating systems capable of making decisions and determining actions by themselves, have the potential to achieve significant fuel and crew efficiencies. Their construction and deployment represents an important step towards achieving zero-emission shipping.
2 days ago
UK and Japan align efforts to accelerate maritime autonomy
· Organisations engage in UK-Japan workshop to explore innovative possibilities as to future collaboration on safe maritime autonomous systems adoption. UK and Japanese stakeholders are engaged together to accelerate the development of an assurance framework for maritime autonomy and instigate development of appropriate regional and international regulations, following a four-day workshop in ...
4 days ago
German group mulls remote-controlled ships to fix skipper shortage
· "Everything is as it would be on board a ship," navigator Patrick Hertoge told AFP in Duisburg next to 10 monitors displaying the status of a autonomous barge on its way to Hamburg. Life on land After 30 years skippering his own barge, 58-year-old Hertoge was recruited by Seafar to work on the autonomous shipping project.
4 days ago
IMO Facilitation Committee to Discuss Autonomous Shipping
· The Committee will consider proposed amendments to the Guidelines for the Prevention and Suppression of the Smuggling of Wildlife on Ships Engaged in International Maritime Traffic FAL.5/Circ.50 ...
Apr 7, 2024
AI at Sea: Transforming the Maritime Industry - Primo Nautic
· This opens up possibilities for autonomous ships or ships with smaller numbers of crew members. The operations also help the crew members focus on other critical tasks on the vessel to ensure improved efficiency and safe cargo delivery. ... Concerns regarding carbon footprint are at the top of today’s maritime industry’s agenda. Machine ...
Apr 7, 2024