New business ecosystem has brought together global forerunners and agile ICT start-ups to develop first autonomous shipping solutions in the world.
Empowering the digitalization and harvesting effectively its benefits is priority area in the Governmental Program of Finland. Digitalization has also a strong role in the development of the competitiveness of the Finnish maritime cluster. Autonomous maritime ecosystem is a concrete action of Finnish digitalization strategy and Finnish Marine Industries envisioning.
The aim is to provide world’s first unmanned maritime products, services and vivid ecosystem by 2025. As a part of the ecosystem,the Ministry of Transport and Communications is committed to enable testing of autonomous vessels in Finland in a flexible manner.
The players in the business ecosystem include Rolls Royce as well as numerous innovative ICT companies. Tekes is committed financing autonomous marine ecosystem development and boosting new innovations into markets in the coming years.
“We are especially enthusiastic about colliding our world class ICT start-up scene with strong maritime players. New networks will boost exchanging ideas and create pioneering community for intelligent shipping”, says program manager Piia Moilanen from Tekes.
In practice, the initiative will create a common roadmap for reaching autonomous marine operations and enables effective co-operation and coordinated development between industry, research institutes, class societies and authorities. The roadmap creation and implementation is steered by a group of leading industry partners.
Source: Tekes
