When people start to get carried away on the subject of autonomous shipping, Eero Lehtovaara, Head of Regulatory Affairs at ABB Marine & Ports, likes to bring the conversation back down to earth: an autonomous vessel is not necessary unmanned but an unmanned vessel is, by default, autonomous to a high degree.
One of Lehtovaara’s main areas of focus is regulations governing responsibility for a ship, onboard and on shore. That places him squarely in the middle of the current discourse on unmanned...
https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/abb-lr-envisions-reality-of-ships-sailing-automatically/