Autonomous Shipping

Port of Aberdeen is part of a consortium led by zero-emission vessel provider ACUA Ocean, in partnership with zero-emission infrastructure provider Unitrove, that has won a UK government grant in a major push to decarbonise the maritime sector.

Fugro’s Blue Essence®, a 12 m uncrewed surface vessel (USV), has received approval from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) to operate the first USV with an electrical remotely operated vehicle (eROV) in UK waters.

UUVs are used extensively for commercial applications such as oil and gas exploration, underwater infrastructure inspection (cables, pipelines, etc.) scientific research and even underwater salvage.

The complex project, in Europe’s busiest part of the North Sea, involved the inspection of two platforms and over 40 kilometres of pipeline off the coast of the Netherlands.

Exail, formerly iXblue, recently took part in the Digital Horizon Unmanned & Artificial Intelligence Exercise in Bahrain, organized by the US Navy.

The results were very positive, both from a climate and a safety aspect. This opens up for a broader use of this new technology.

The test demonstrated that Pharos can be adapted to a wide range of vehicles, including the large displacement unmanned undersea vehicles.

This contract gives the opportunity to showcase a new concept for cities that want to make better use of their waterways.

The unarmed battery-powered craft will be able to dive deeper than any vessel in the current submarine fleet and cover up to 1,000 miles in a single mission.

Developed by Exail, the DriX USV is operated by major hydrographic institutes and energy companies worldwide and has already received Bureau Veritas Approval in Principle (AiP).

Argeo Robotics AS has been granted a patent from the Norwegian Industrial Patent office (Patentstyret) for a subsea electromagnetic remote-sensing system.

This marine drone was named it “PEACE Дец.” Transliterated to Russian it would loosely mean “F * * * * * up,” or “terrible end.