Pia Meling, Vice President, Sales & Marketing at Massterly AS – A Kongsberg Wilhelmsen joint venture

This is a subject creating interest and a lot of emotions, it’s all about autonomous shipping! Meet Pia Meling, a very knowledgeable maritime professional speaking about what challenges there are with autonomous ships but also the strategy behind developing a new segment of shipping.  The idea is to move goods from roads to the sea and the various scales of autonomous, from assistance to fully autonomous.

Of course, we cover a lot more in this, the 107th episode of the Shipping Podcast, how...

https://shippingpodcast.com/pia-meling-vice-president-sales-marketing-at-massterly-as-a-kongsberg-wilhelmsen-joint-venture/

Autonomous Navy test vessel completes unmanned California-Hawaii voyage

The Navy autonomous test vessel Sea Hunter undergoing sea trials the Willamette River at Portland, Ore., in 2016. DARPA photo.

The Office of Naval Research’s 132’ trimaran Sea Hunter became the first ship to successfully autonomously navigate from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and back according to ONR’s program contractor.

The Sea Hunter was designed and build by Leidos, the Reston, Va., science and technology company that started as defense contractor SAIC in the 1960s. Conceived by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as an unmanned vessel for minesweeping and anti-submarine operations, the...

https://www.workboat.com/news/government/autonomous-navy-test-vessel-completes-unmanned-california-hawaii-voyage/

Metal Shark to debut new models and technology at WorkBoat Show

The first public showing of Metal Shark's new, next-generation Defiant X patrol boat platform will take place at the International WorkBoat Show starting Wednesday. Metal Shark rendering

Shipbuilder Metal Shark will be showcasing an array of new products and technology at this year’s International Workboat Show in New Orleans.

“With the exponential growth of our company, capabilities and technology, we found ourselves with an abundance of genuinely newsworthy product to highlight at this show,” Josh Stickles, Metal Shark’s vice president of marketing, said in a statement announcing the debuts.

Perhaps most notably, Metal Shark has selected this year’s Workboat Show to give the...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/metal-shark-to-debut-new-models-technology-at-workboat-show/

Sea Machines Robotics delivers autonomous tech for conventional marine operations

Sea Machines Robotics says its new products, SM300 and SM200, transport the marine industry into a new era of task-driven, computer-guided vessel operations, bringing advanced autonomy within reach for small- and large-scale operators. Already in use in North America and Europe, Sea Machines’ products unlock real value in commercial vessel operations by providing major advances in productivity, predictability, performance and safety. Sea Machines Robotics photo

Sea Machines Robotics, a Boston-based developer of autonomous technology for marine vessels, has announced the successful completion of product sea trials of the company’s introductory line of intelligent command and control systems, developed for the demanding challenges of offshore commercial, scientific and government applications.

The two new products, SM300 and SM200 transport the marine industry into a new era of task-driven, computer-guided vessel operations, bringing advanced autonomy...

https://www.workboat.com/news/people-and-products/sea-machines-robotics-delivers-autonomous-tech-for-conventional-marine-operations/