Furuno Electric Company has been hard at work developing systems for unmanned ships as part of Japan’s Designing the Future of Full Autonomous Ship (DFFAS) Project. Furuno’s commitment to contributing its expertise to the project was underscored yet again with the fifth demonstration test of the DFFAS program. Carried out between Tokyo Bay and Ise Bay from February 26 to March 1, a distance of nearly 300 miles, the test demonstrated for the first time the viability of a comprehensive, fully...