Inaugurated to Turku center R&S of Rolls-Royce for the independent ships to remote control and



Yesterday the Rolls-Royce group has inaugurated the own new research center and development for the independent ships to remote control and to Turku, in Finland(on 10 March 2017). "There is - it has emphasized Anne Berner, minister of the Transports and the communications Finnish, in the course of the inauguration ceremony - a great total interest for vehicles and the independent ships as means of transport future. The opening of the research center and Rolls-Royce development here to Turku, a marine city with a history of technological innovation, will contribute to the attainment of our objective to digitize the field of the transports of the country".

"I am proud - Mikael Makinen has asserted, president of Rolls- Royce Marine - than center R&S are time operating and that all the stakeholder, the partner and the customers can see here as could be the controlled marine future and independent and to collaborate with we for giving form to the future". New center R&S, in fact, comprises between other a "Experience Space" finalized to show the technologies for the independent ships to remote control and that Rolls-Royce has already introduced and those in phase of development. "It is the Experience Space di Turku, than another similar one, than it is found in our Centro Tecnologico in Norway - Makinen has explained - allow to demonstrate to our customers the tangible advantages of that which often an intangible technology is considered".

The Experience Space comprises various interactive tables on which Rolls-Royce it can show the existing and future technologies, helping at the same time to facilitate the development and the introduction of new rules and standard for independent navigation. "The center - it has added Karno Tenovuo, senior vice president Rolls-Royce, Ship Intelligence - allows us to communicate with greater precision our abilities, this that we have on hand today and that will be available tomorrow. It is focused totally on the development of solutions in a position to levelling the transition of the marine field towards the digital era. An independent marine ecosystem will open unknown opportunities".

Al cut of the tape is taken part between the others, Martin Stopford, president of Clarkson Research, Massimo Mascaro di Google, Mats Rosin di Finferries, Päivi Haikkola di One Sea, Oskar Levander di Rolls-Royce and Tuomas Routa of the Finnish Agency for safety of the transports.