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 ...
OCEANIC of once HOME LINES was a matter of design and became an icon similar to EUGENIO C. her near sister for LINEA C. OCEANIC is reflecting a time when good design was a neccessaty for the reputation of a passenger shipping company. by Earl of Cruise ss OCEANIC, promotional postcard of HOME LINES - own collection "Give an Italian a piece of steel and he is forming art of it!" I wrote in my article about EUGENIO C. , it is with OCEANIC the same ... OCEANIC is often called the near sister to the LINEA C. liner for the La Plata trade. OCEANIC, another Italian beauty, instead was constructed for the Transatlantic run in summer seasons from Cuxhaven via Southampton and Le Havre to Canada, and in winter OCEANIC was intended to do cruises. Unfortunately OCEANIC never entered the Transatlantic trade and was used from the beginning of her long career as a cruise vessel. ss EUGENIO C., promotional postcard of LINEA C - own collection OCEANIC was the first new...