Autonomous shipping is coming, but what does that mean for 21st-century seafarers?

Autonomous shipping is coming, but what does that mean for 21st-century seafarers?

Image: Wärtsilä Voyage A number of companies are investing in autonomous and semi-autonomous craft to navigate roadways and traverse the airways of the future. At the same time, autonomous solutions are revolutionizing the maritime market, bringing machine learning and artificial intelligence seafarers into the fold as companies rethink shipping in the digital transformation age. As waterways become increasingly automated what will these changes mean for human seafarers?

In a recent blog post, autonomous shipping solutions provider, Wärtsilä Voyage, described its retrofit of the American Courage, a 194-meter bulk freighter that operates along the Cuyahoga River. With these autonomous capabilities, the […]

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