autonomous-shipping

The Dutch Joint Industry Project Autonomous Shipping brings together a consortium of seventeen partners: maritime businesses, knowledge & educational institutions, service providers, and governments in a two-year applied research programme. The study started with an exploration and analysis of possible applications. It studies the requirements for safe navigation in a shipping environment and examines whether it is possible to use existing technology to mitigate or fix these malfunctions from shore.

This Joint Industry Project is unique in the sense that it is supported by a broad consortium of stakeholders: shipping companies SeaZip Offshore Service, Fugro, and the Dutch Pilotage organisation, Damen Shipyards and Feadship, naval architects DEKC Maritime, technology suppliers Bosch Rexroth, Robosys Automation, knowledge institutions MARIN, TNO, Technical University of Delft, classification society Bureau Veritas, maritime academies Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz – NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Rotterdam Mainport Institute (STC & Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) and project coordinator Netherlands Maritime Technology. The Dutch government is represented by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management and the Ministry of Defence (Defence Materiel Organisation). It is partly funded by the TKI-Maritiem allowance of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.