Hyunday’s Prism Courage just completed the first autonomous ocean ship voyage from the Gulf of Mexico to South Korea. The vessel is still operating with a crew but with a reduce human operations and increase in route optimization and fuel efficiency.
This is just a fist step in a very ambitious goal of bring AI to merchant and leisure ships. The goal is not so much the crew dependency but more the impact on safety and the environment (fuel consumption by 7%, greenhouse gas emissions by 5%, and avoiding over 100 collisions with other ships)
#sustainability #CO2 #demurrage