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 ...
HAMBURG-AMERIKANISCHEPACKETFAHRT ACTIEN GESELLSCHAFT - HAPAG or HAMBURG AMERICA LINE is reflecting, as Germany, the LLOYD of Bremen, two times of rsing and two times of devasting downfall and a third rise. BORUSSIA , 1856, First Day Cover 1956 of Deutsche Bundespost - own collection Once Germany´s biggest shipping line HAPAG / HAMBURG-AMERIKANISCHE PACKETFAHRT ACTIEN GESELLSCHAFT-LLOYD, merged with it former old Hanseatic rival NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD in 1970, to now HAPAG-LLOYD, had its peaks and downs, but rose each time on its own to new hights, without any state subsidies. As German mail subsidiaries did never cover the costs for purchasing or mainting the vessels ordered for the specific German mail lines. by Earl of Cruise In this article I used most German Wikipedia links, as they proved to be mostly of better research quality, and surprisinf to me, some English lines and liners have only German written articles, for the others, English Wiki links are to ...