E-navigation

UK MCA receives funding to study autonomous shipping

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/

Shipping needs to embrace technology

Mr Peter Due, Director Autonomy, Global Sales & Marketing, Kongsberg Maritime highlights that embracing the future with technology is imperative for the shipping industry more than ever before which is currently in a transitional period. He predicts that most ships in the future will still be manned ships, however, given that there is more acceptance towards automation, the regulatory challenges for autonomous ships need to be addressed.

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New solution to improve entry conditions at Port of Hamburg

Hamburg Vessel Coordination Center (HVCC) and tug shipping company Kotug Smit Towage will cooperate at the Port of Hamburg in order to coordinate preliminary planning for ship calls and departures, and relevant tug services. This step aims to improve the efficiency and quality of ship handling in the Port of Hamburg.

Kotug Smit Towage is the first port service provider with access to the Hamburg Vessel Coordination Center’s time-related and geographically extensive planning system.

Kotug Smit...

https://safety4sea.com/new-solution-to-improve-entry-conditions-at-port-of-hamburg/

Port of Rotterdam tests automation with floating lab

In order to prepare for the arrival of autonomous navigation, the Port of Rotterdam has converted a patrol vessel into a floating lab that collects data, including about the vessel’s operation and power.

These data will enable further research for the introduction of autonomous navigation and the Port of Rotterdam. The first partnership for data exchange from the floating lab has now been signed with Captain AI. They are adding artificial intelligence to the data, enabling computers to be...

https://safety4sea.com/port-of-rotterdam-tests-automation-with-floating-lab/

What are the regulatory barriers to autonomous ships?

As the issue of shipping automation gains more and more ground in the industry debate, Heather Maxwell, Senior Claims Executive at the Standard P&I Club, analyzed how the regulatory and legal systems will adapt to this changing environment, arguing that the current legal framework does not help the adoption.

Whilst the high investment in onshore and offshore infrastructure is undoubtedly a hurdle to autonomous technology being broadly adopted in the shipping industry, perhaps a more daunting...

https://safety4sea.com/what-are-the-regulatory-barriers-to-autonomous-ships/

Key advantages and disadvantages of ship autonomy

As autonomous ships are becoming a much-discussed topic in the industry, Callum O’Brien, Deputy Underwriter working for the Standard P&I Club, discussed key advantages and challenges ahead surrounding the adoption and viability of this technology and how soon the industry will be able to embrace it.

Defining autonomy

The term ‘autonomous ship’ is mainly used to depict a self-sailing crewless vessel, but there are actually various degrees of autonomy. It is first important to distinguish between...

https://safety4sea.com/key-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-ship-autonomy/

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