Tag: automation

French containership giant CMA CGM has signed a seven-year strategic partnership with technology company Infosys, aiming to simplify and transform IT applications and improve customer service.

Rolls-Royce has revealed plans for an autonomous, single role, naval vessel with a range of 3500 nautical miles. The 60m long vessel is designed to perform a range of single role missions, for example, patrol & surveillance, mine detection or fleet screening.

Kalmar and Navis announced the delivery of the first OneTerminal automation solution to ICTSI, at the Port of Melbourne. The deployment was completed ahead of schedule, making Victoria International Container Terminal the world's first fully automated international container handling facility.

Speaking in London, new IACS Chairman, Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen announced a series of initiatives designed to ensure that IACS provides the support its stakeholders need in a rapidly changing industry. As Mr Ørbeck-Nilssen explained, the industry is becoming more and more complex ahead of digitalization.

Russian developers have launched a project for an integrated marine robotic system of anthropomorphic type for offshore operations, that will be presented by MariNet, the National Technological Initiative working group.

Russian developers have launched the project of a unique technological platform that will allow testing of unmanned surface vessels navigation in virtual environment. The project will be presented by the working group MariNet of the National Technological Initiative.

The EU STM Validation, which won the first 2017 SMART4SEA Innovation Award last January, has installed its first Sea Traffic Management compatible bridge systems in “Stena Germanica” and two rescue units from Swedish Sea Rescue Society.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore and IBM have jointly completed the pilot trial of three modules under the MPA-IBM SAFER project, which will be rolled out progressively, beginning September 2017.

A group of Norwegian graduates have spent their summer developing smart “robot containers” with cooling systems that can sail to ports without any human interaction, to held the seafood industry to comply with increasingly strict demands of consumers on sustainable seafood production, DNV GL informed. 

The One Sea – Autonomous Maritime Ecosystem announced the opening of the Jaakonmeri autonomous maritime test area, the first to be globally open to anyone wishing to test autonomous maritime traffic, vessels, or technologies related to it.