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Autonomous navigation on Russian ro-paxes

News18 Oct 2023

MARINET, the Russian maritime non-commercial industry association, has reported that two new-build ro-paxes operating in domestic trade in t...

News6 Oct 2023

The Fernbin research project, involving a number of project partners, was presented for the first time at the German National Maritime Confe...

News27 Sep 2022

Antwerp-based SEAFAR will cooperate with HGK Shipping and Reederei Deymann to introduce remote-controlled inland waterway shipping and servi...

News21 Jun 2021

ABB and Keppel O&M have successfully carried out South Asia’s first remote joystick control of a tugboat in the Port of Singapore....

News17 Feb 2021

The first semi-autonomous sailing with a container barge has been completed on the Westerschelde...

News30 Sep 2020

Vessel will use US technology and be built in Louisiana...

News4 Jun 2020

Cargotec’s Kalmar and MacGregor are joining an EU project to help “drive development of connected automated waterborne transport”....

News17 May 2020

Yara puts a pause on its autonomous vessel and automated terminal project....

News27 Dec 2019

Navigation Brilliance, a Qingdao-based smart ship technology company, has placed an order at Yangfan Shipbuilding’s Qingdao Shipyard for t...

News15 Jun 2019

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, and Kongsberg Maritime have entered into an agreement where MacGregor will deliver an automated mooring system ...

News4 Dec 2018

Rolls-Royce and Finnish state-owned ferry operator Finnferries have demonstrated what is claimed to be the world’s first fully autonomous ...

News29 Jul 2018

Replying to an official enquiry by the opposition Liberal Party (FDP), Germany’s coalition government (CDU/CSU and SDP) has stated that it...