JAPAN's Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has announced that together with its two group companies have concluded the world's first sea trial of unmanned ship operation from port to port on 24th and 25th January, reported the American Journal of Transportation.
Led by the Nippon Foundation, there were two major features of the consortiums role in the MEGURI2040 unmanned ship project.
First, the sea trial was conducted with two types of ships: a coastal containership and a coastal car ferry, and second it conducted mooring tests using a drone in a move toward automated mooring operations.
Since MEGURI2040s inception in 2020, the consortium has conducted various elemental experiments to realise autonomous ship operation.
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