UK MCA receives funding to study autonomous shipping

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The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) and the Department for Transport (DfT), along with the National Oceanography Centre’s (NOC) Marine Robotics Innovation Centre, successfully secured £1million in a bid to advance autonomous and smart shipping into the UK.

The funding will be used to come up with new ways of regulating the autonomous and smart shipping industries to help them deliver new technologies to the traditional maritime sector.

In addition, a Maritime Autonomy Regulation Lab will be...

https://safety4sea.com/uk-mca-receives-funding-to-study-autonomous-shipping/

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