Tag: smart ships

As digitalization continues to evolve, the shipping industry faces ongoing challenges, including keeping pace with technology, adapting to changes and meeting the growing demands of stricter regulations. To respond to these developments successfully, industry requires a diverse, multidisciplinary, and well-trained workforce and a strategy to attract new talents, agreed experts of 2021 CAREER4SEA Forum.

A consortium of Marubeni Corporation, Tryangle, Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding and the City of Yokosuka completed a pilot project on autonomous ship operations.

Digital technologies are triggering a revolution in the way ships are navigating. The traditional structure of a mariner’s working life will be reformed.

During the past decade, a large body of research has accumulated with respect to autonomous ship concepts, and, more recently, several full-scale trials have been undertaken. Research on this topic has reached a level of maturity where their technical feasibility has been proven with available technologies on, for example, autonomous navigation.

The Blue Essence is the first offshore certified unmanned ship (USV) that can launch an electrically remote-controlled underwater robot.

Technological enablements are disrupting the shipping industry. This, in the future, may feel like it happened fast, but behind the scenes, there is a slow, almost quiet but powerful momentum changing little by little the fundamentals of how we do business, argues Mr. Nicolas Mitsotakis, Co-Founder, M2Intelligence.

Samsung Heavy Industries Co. has signed a deal with Dae Sun Shipbuilding & Engineering Co to support technologies for smart ships.

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) is about to develop an alliance focused on the construction of eco-friendly and smart ships.

Digital transformation is the transformation of products, processes and business to fully leverage the opportunities of digitalization.

In an effort to boost autonomy and digitalization, the British Royal Navy has officially welcomed a new autonomous vessel into its service, named as "Madfox".