By Paivi Haikkola • Jukka Merenluoto The One Sea alliance is taking a lead in developing the technologies that will enable the autonomous ship. Delivering an autonomous maritime transport system by 2025 will rely on “collaboration without borders” between major players from the international digital, communications and shipping sectors on regulation, testing and validation, and research and development. Digital, Internet,
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ONE SEA, the industry alliance whose primary aim is to develop autonomous maritime operational standards, has appointed Riku-Pekka Hägg as Chairman of its Management Board.
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UIPA, the South Korean Information and Communication Technology Promotion Agency, has awarded Kongsberg Digital the contract to supply a fully featured bridge simulator for a new, state-of-the-art autonomous ship research facility in Ulsan, South Korea. The Korean government has committed to invest 130 billion won ($110 million USD) in the project over the next three years, with a goal of
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May 2019 Communications, Telemetry, Data Processing
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The world’s first autonomous and electric container vessel is one step closer to launch, as YARA signs a deal with VARD worth approximately NOK 250 million to build the vessel. VARD will deliver the Yara Birkeland vessel for launch in early 2020, and the vessel will gradually move from manned operation to fully autonomous operation by 2022. In May 2017,
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