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The road toward autonomy has taken a major step with the announcement that Wilhelmsen and Kongs- berg are collectively taking the next step in autono- mous shipping by offering a complete value chain for autonomous ships, from design and development, to control systems, logistics services and vessel opera- tions. The new venture is dubbed “Massterly.”

See Full Story on page 13; Tom Mulligan covers the tech behind autonomy starting on page 50

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Technology is great, but ...

There have been increasing levels of automation on ships to help lessen the work load of the of? cer in charge, but to replace that of? cer in charge with a fully autonomous ship … that’s pretty scary. I’ve been on ships that have been hit by lightning and you

Capt Ted Morley MRIN, AFNI get power surges and outages, and then it comes to

USCG Master Unlimited bringing out a sextant to ? gure out where you are in

COO/Academic Principal the world. Sailing on a ship is a dynamic thing. The

Maritime Professional Training recent U.S. Navy collisions have shown that a ship must be manned by people that are well-trained, well-educated and able to respond quickly to a changing dynamic. Technology is a great tool, a great trainer, but it augments, not replaces a thor- ough education and a thorough level of experience.

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Photo of the Month

Cap San Antonio Anchoring in front of Montevideo

Herbert Boettcher took this photo for Ham- burg Süd when he travelled on the container ship Cap San Antonio from Europe to South

America and back to Hamburg. Boettcher started with his worldwide long time project

Seamotion in 2004. Boettcher is a German professional photographer working world- wide for shipping companies to create pho- tos of merchant ships with his unique visual language. He has been working as a gradu- ate designer for more than 20 years and has already received numerous awards for his applied and free photographic work.

More works you will ? nd at his website: www.HerbertBoettcher.com

Contact him at: [email protected] © Herbert Boettcher 2018 MPT (Photo: Kongsberg/Wilhelmsen) 8 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • APRIL 2018

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