{"id":55488,"date":"2016-08-31T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_ship_operators_explore_autonomous_sailing\/"},"modified":"2016-08-31T17:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T17:00:55","slug":"wsj_ship_operators_explore_autonomous_sailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55488","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Ship Operators Explore Autonomous Sailing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll hands on deck\u201d\u009d may become a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Ship designers, their operators and regulators are gearing up for a future in which cargo vessels sail the oceans with minimal or even no crew. Advances in automation and ample bandwidth even far offshore could herald the biggest change in shipping since diesel engines replaced steam.<\/p>\n<p>Ship operators believe more automation will enable them to optimize ship use, including cutting fuel consumption. \u201cThe benefit of automation is as an enabler of further efficiency across the 630 vessels we operate,\u201d\u009d said Palle Laursen, head of Maersk Line Ship Management, a unit of cargo-ship giant A.P. Moeller-Maersk A\/S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ship-operators-explore-autonomous-sailing-1472635800\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll hands on deck\u201d\u009d may become a thing of the past. Ship designers, their operators and regulators are gearing up for a future in which cargo vessels sail the oceans with minimal or even no crew. Advances in automation and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55488\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,589,149,140,168,597,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}