By the end of the decade the ships to remote control in commercial service will be a truth



the exact date is not still expectable, but it is sure that in a not remote future the independent ships and to remote control will furrow the seas. Indeed, if the droni, the aircrafts to remote pilotage, are already a truth, the ships without crew it will be within the end of the running decade. It assures White Paper on this innovative type of ships that is published by the AAWA (Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative), naval, manifacturing plan of which the Rolls-Royce group is front man and that it reunites university, companies, architects and agencies of classification between which main the university Finnish which the Tampere University of Technology, the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the university Åbo Akademi, Aalto and Turku let alone the enterprises NAPA, Deltamarin, DNV GL and Inmarsat.

the plan, that it has the scope to explore the economic, social factors, lawyers, prescribed and technological to face in order to make to become the independent ships truth and that will produce to the preliminary detailed lists and plans for the next generation of naval solutions advances, will continue until the end of 2017 and has received 6,6 million euros from Tekes, the Finnish Agency for the financing of technologies and innovation that has approved of it in February 2015.

White Paper is introduced in the course of the Autonomous Ship Technology Simposium 2016 that will be concluded tomorrow to Amsterdam.

"Not a issue of "if", but of "when"", Oskar Levander has confirmed, vice-president for Marine innovation of the division of Rolls-Royce during the symposium. "The technologies that serve in order to return the ships really to remote guide and independent - have explained - they are already truth. Plan AAWA is testing series of sensors in a range of operating and climatic conditions in Finland and has created a simulated system of independent control that affords to analyze the behavior of the entire system of communication. We will by the end of the decade see ships to remote control in commercial service".

White Paper AAWA up to now illustrates the carried out search beginning from the business houses for the independent applications, the implications on safety (safety and security) to plan and to operate ships to remote control, the aspects lawyers and normative and the existence of a Network of suppliers in a position to delivering commercially in the short and medium term produced applicable.

the plan has the support of shipowners and operators of the field. The tests of the range of sensors are lead on board of the Star, a bidirectional ferry from 65 meters of the Finnish company Finferries that is operated between Korpo and Houtskär. ESL Shipping Ltd is instead occupying to shortly analyze to the implications of the independent boats to remote control for the field cargo beam.