Tag: drones

According to port of Antwerp Bruges, six autonomous drones will perform daily flights in the Antwerp port area, a world first that will make an important contribution to overall security of the complex port environment.

Maersk's integrated logistics arm aims to improve its inventory management system by outsourcing the job of checking pallet locations to a drone.

On 23 January 2023, the Port of Rotterdam Authority started organising the airspace for drone use. To this end, the Airspace Centre was set up on the 14th floor of the Port of Rotterdam Authority’s offices.

On November 21, the Yemeni government informed that Houthi rebels attacked the terminal while the VLCC Pratika was near a loading buoy.

The "Intelligent Drones for Port and Highways Technology" (InDePTH) project, which is part of the "Future Flight Challenge Phase 3" programme, has received government backing, thanks to new funding available via research agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to help achieve a vision for UK’s future drone economy.

A tanker was hit by a projectile off the coast of Oman on November 15, causing minor damage to the hull with no injuries or spillage of the gas oil cargo, according to Eastern Pacific Shipping, manager of the tanker "Pacific Zircon".

The Port of Rotterdam is setting up a U-Space Airspace prototype, to test in practice how it should organise the airspace over the port and keep it safe.

An Okeanis Eco Tankers’ very large crude carrier was the target of armed drones on October 21, as the vessel had called for loading at the Al-Dabba oil terminal in Ash Shihr, Yemen.

On October 19, the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) commenced flight operations using a Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, to perform Maritime Wide Area Search (MWAS) over the Sea of Japan/East Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

A drone has revealed the length of underwater Nord Stream pipeline that could only have been caused by one or more massive underwater explosions, according to experts.