A future with ships sailing without a captain, navigated by artificial intelligence? by Earl of Cruise Unmanned vessels flying the flag of Amazon - that is the opinion of the largest German ship owners, and not only them, no longer an utopia. The Marine heads for the digitization and adjusts to a broad upheaval in the sector. Photo courtesy by MAERSK LINE Men overboard, to save costs, to become more efficient, be more shareholder value caring? The digitalizing will engage the ship owners in the near future. PwC has made research for. 87% of the participating think of a higher digitalizing of shipping. 25% think it will be that successful, that we will see ships in the near future sailing without a crew. It is a turning point, as last year 96% did not think digitalizing will even happen. But we have seen sailing the first of these non crewed vessels. 51% of the managers think it will be important for the international competition to get a bigger part in the whole transport ...
Over years, in my early youth, the QUEEN ELIZABETH was shaping my mind for the perfect ocean liner, despite having made my first experiences with a liner onboard the HANSEATIC (1), ex EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND, ex EMPRESS OF JAPAN. When leaning at the rail of HANSEATIC entering the port, my eyes where every where and I wished to by a camera, I took all in. And when seeing the QUEEN ELIZABETH with my own eyes, the nice behaving young boy turned into a tomboy, that my grandmére was no longer able to tame ... I did draw quite a lot of looks, back then. I found, while on research, this article and thought it interesting publishing in my blog: written and published by John Sheperd at liverpoolships.org editing and comments by Earl of Cruise I ( John Shepard ) joined the CUNARD LINE in March 1962 as an Assistant Purser and sailed the QUEEN ELIZABETH throughout that year, before transferring to the Liverpool-based CARINTHIA in November, where I remained as Crew Purser for the next five...