Rolls-Royce signs agreements with MacGregor and Stena Line in order to develop to systems of automation for the conduction and the management of the ships



The Rolls-Royce group has signed agreements with the MacGregor and the Stena Line with the objective to develop to systems of automation for the conduction and the management of the ships. With the MacGregor, that it takes part of the Finnish group Cargotec specialized in the realization of equipments, crane and systems of handling for the harbour and naval field, the British group has undersigned a memorandum of understanding in order to collaborate to the search and the development of systems of navigation and cargo for portacontainer independent, that is ships without crew and to remote management.

The Rolls-Royce group, assets for a long time in this specific field, has announced in recent days that within this year it will institute in Finland a research center for the ships to remote control ( on 10 March 2017). "Rolls-Royce - Asbjørn Skaro has confirmed, director Digital and systems of the British group - is experiencing independent ships and to remote control and considers that such ships can be used commercially by the end of the decade and that they can be employees usually on the oceans within 2030. In order to fully pick all the benefits of such change, many activities that today are realized manually will have to be carried out automatically. This search will help to try us to understand as this can be made".

"In the fields in which we operate - it has evidenced Pasi Lehtonen - vice-president senior Strategy, business and marketing of MacGregor - we find many useless ones wastes as inefficiency, damages to the cargo and conditions of job subordinates to constant danger. Our objective is to reduce lessened these wastes, and this collaboration on the autonomy of the portacontenitori ships is a good example of as leader in this field can work together in order to transform the field".

The agreement signed from Rolls-Royce with the Swede Stena Line, than work a fleet of about 35 ships between ferries and unit ro-ro, previews that the two companies collaborate to the development of ulterior an informative system that it offers to the crew given on the ship to the aim to return simpler, sure and efficient the navigation.

Harry Robertsson, production manager of Stena Teknin, branch of the Stena group specialized in the development of naval technologies, has emphasized that "Stena Teknik carries out research & development activity continuously in the naval field and - has added - this project offers the opportunity to us to discover as the new technologies can be integrated with the systems of which already we have on board the ships and can supply a more complete vision of the "ambient ship" in more accessible and comprehensible way. This will offer to our crews an advanced decisional instrument increasing safety of our ships".