Shipping has a range of autonomous solutions
Moving away from the idea of autonomous shipping being purely about remote-controlled ships, DIMECC head of programmes Päivi Haikkola preferred to talk in terms of autonomy-related solutions instead, predicting there will be a wide range of them. How much autonomy is involved will depend on the application, she added
However, higher levels of standardisation are required — something that many equipment manufacturers are reluctant to embrace because they want to maintain their proprietary edge