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Editorial ’ll never forget the “Hinge Ship,” a vessel concept If someone would have told me 20 years ago that ships would

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News, but I will never forget the cavalcade of comments from Another idea many dub ‘crazy’ is the notion of Unmanned

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Emin Tule giving the concept such prominent play. Lo and behold, the coming, as most everything seems to be in maritime, trust masses were indeed correct and there are not massive ? eets when I say that autonomy on the waterways will do nothing

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