Autonomous maritime navigation systems are being tested on ships of ever-increasing size. Now it's the turn of a container ship from 15.000 teu, unit that if currently is considered to have medium/high capacity, up to a Fifteen years ago it was the largest ship in service at the world. Autonomous navigation with a container carrier of this Capacity has been tested by the navalmeccanico group South Korean Samsung Heavy Industries on the route of 1,500 kilometers connecting the South Korean port of Geoje to the Taiwanese port of Geoje Kaohsiung which was traveled from June 26 to July 1 Past.

SHI showed that the test was fully successful and that in the 9,000 obstacles have been identified during navigation more than 90% of which correspond to those identified by an expert ship command.