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Agreement Automated Ships - Kongsberg in order to realize the first ship without completely automated crew and
the unit will be constructed in completed the Fjellstrand yard and in 2018
November 2, 2016
The British Automated Ships and the Maritime Kongsberg Norwegian have undersigned an agreement with the scope to construct the Hrõnn, a ship support for the offshore industry that - they have emphasized the two partner - will be the first ship without completely automated crew and to the world. The project previews that the next January the English society, that it is a branch of the MSubs di Plymouth, commission the ship that will be planned and constructed in Norway, the Fjellstrand yard, cooperation with the Kongsberg and will be completed in 2018. The tests in sea will be realized in the fjord of Trondheim under the surveillance of Maritime registry DNV GL and the Norwegiam Authority (NMA), than respective they will classify and register the ship.
The Hrõnn could be employed to service of the offshore energetic industry, scientific and hydrographical activities and to service of the fisheries. Automated Ships has announced of being in various negotiations with potential final users of the ship.
"The advantages of the ships without crew - it has found Brett A. Phaneuf, managing director of the Automated Ships - are multiple, but above all centralized on the safeguard of the lives and the cost reduction of production and management, with the removal of the people from activities in sea in environments dangerous in order to re-employ them to earth in order to monitor and to operate from remote robotizzate ships and meanwhile with a meaningful cost reduction of construction of the ships the marine industry will be revolutionized".
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The British Automated Ships and the Maritime Kongsberg Norwegian have undersigned an agreement with the scope to construct the Hrõnn, a ship support for the offshore industry that - they have emphasized the two partner - will be the first ship without completely automated crew and to the world. The project previews that the next January the English society, that it is a branch of the MSubs di Plymouth, commission the ship that will be planned and constructed in Norway, the Fjellstrand yard, cooperation with the Kongsberg and will be completed in 2018. The tests in sea will be realized in the fjord of Trondheim under the surveillance of Maritime registry DNV GL and the Norwegiam Authority (NMA), than respective they will classify and register the ship.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
