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Marr, B. (2019, June 5) The Incredible Autonomous Ships Of The Future: Run By Artificial Intelligence Rather Than A Crew https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/06/05/the-incredible-autonomous-ships-of-the-future-run-by-artificial-intelligence-rather-than-a-crew/#2fa1d9b66fbf Annotated summary on an article related to SmartNav The article, “The Incredible Autonomous Ships Of The Future: Run By Artificial Intelligence Rather Than A Crew” (Marr, 2019), introduces the concept of autonomous ships, how they are beneficial, and what difficulties they currently face. The author wrote this article to inform the general public about autonomous ships. Autonomous ships are vessels that “can operate on its own without a crew” (Marr, 2019). The author believes that autonomous ships are not the end of manned ships as their applications are not universal. There have been deployments of autonomous ships in calm waters with simple routes and little traffic. Autonomous ships are not ju...

CBInsights(2018, August 28) Massive Cargo Ships Are Going Autonomous. Here Are The Companies & Trends Driving The Global Maritime Industry Forward. https://www.cbinsights.com/research/autonomous-shipping-trends/ Annotated summary of an article related to SmartNav The article, “Massive Cargo Ships Are Going Autonomous. Here Are The Companies & Trends Driving The Global Maritime Industry Forward” (2018), it describes how companies are progressing in autonomous ship technology and how this may “improve safety, lower costs, and reduce energy consumption”.   The article states that autonomous technology is developed by both corporate and start-up companies to be implemented on existing vessels. Autonomous ships will have a positive impact on global trading. Up to 96% of maritime accidents are caused by human errors, which will be reduced with autonomous ships . Autonomous ships will also reduce shipping costs. Up to 30% of a ship’s total costs is due to crew-related ex...

Introduction  This report introduces SmartNav and how it will greatly benefit the shipping industry of ships 300 gross tonnage and larger improving its efficiency and making sea travel safer. This product will greatly benefit seafarers, shipping and transport companies. Background 16 of the world's cargo ships emit as much “lung-clogging sulphur pollution” as all the cars in the world (Pearce, 2009). Planning the shortest travel routes used by cargo ships, operating costs and the pollution produced by cargo ships can be reduced. From 2011 to 2019, there were 25614 ships involved in collisions. (EMSA, 2019) Ship collisions have many factors with human error being the largest factor.  According to the article “Modes of Transportation explained: Which type of cargo and freight transportation is the best?”(Carnarius, 2018), seaborne trading makes up 90% of global trading. Ocean freights are the preferred method of transportation due to being the cheapest method of sh...