SINGAPORE (April 25): Keppel Offshore & Marine has signed an MoU with the Maritime Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Technology Centre for Offshore and Marine, Singapore (TCOMS) to jointly develop autonomous vessels.
These will be used for a variety of applications including undertaking harbour operations such as channelling, berthing, mooring and towing operations.
Keppel O&M, Keppel Corp’s offshore and marine division, will use its remote vessel monitoring and analytics programme, VesselCare, as the base platform in the initial phase to develop autonomous vessels. VesselCare is able to perform data consolidation, condition based monitoring and maintenance, mining and analytics of vessels... (Click here to read the full story)