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Photo courtesy NAVTOR about the vessel and the environment ? rst question is usually “what is the to help create the most ef? cient and ef- minimum that I can do?” fective route. “I think this is the most Aside from ef? ciency and emis- advanced auto routing in the market sion reduction, another driver central today,” said Svanes, integrating and de- to NAVTOR’s future is autonomous ploying the latest updates from arti? cial vessels, and the company has been in- intelligence and marine learning, bring- volved in projects regarding vessel con- ing it all back to the issue of sustain- trol. “To be clear, we are not in the con- ability. Burning less fuel means greater trol business, we are in the information, ef? ciency, pro? tability and less impact navigation monitoring business,” said on the environment. Svanes. “But we de? nitely will play a “The genius part is not only making role as we progress toward autonomous the complex simple, but making it look vessels.” easy, too.” But he admits that the autonomous “revolution” will take a very long time,

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