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MOL to use remotely controlled robots in its vessels

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and MELTIN MMI will collaborate to install remotely controlled robots in ocean shipping operations, including vessels, associated businesses, and offshore businesses.

The two Tokyo-based companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim of a joint study to introduce MELTIN’s remote-control robotic technology for adoption in MOL’s ocean shipping-related operations.

The adoption of new technologies, such as autonomous navigation and remote control, can provide solutions to issues of marine accidents and improve transport quality, according to a statement.

“The introduction of MELTIN’s remote-control robotic technology, being developed with the assumption that it will be used in areas such as dangerous, time-consuming work or duties done in extremely high and low-temperature environments, can also help reduce the workload on seafarers, particularly in tasks that present challenges to hands-on operation,” said MOL.

The two partners have repeatedly studied the possibility of addressing a wide variety of issues in the ocean shipping industry by introducing MELTIN’s technology.

In addition, major advances have been made in the high-speed onboard telecommunication environment in recent years, so MOL expects synergistic effects by combining improved telecommunication with MELTIN’s remote-control robotic technology.

Both companies are committed to building a strategic relationship to introduce MELTIN’s technology and proceed with more detailed and specific studies, which led to the conclusion of the MoU.

The companies will push forward more discussion and action to study details specific to different vessel types and routes for the introduction of remotely controlled robots and associated technologies, with an eye toward not only determining the feasibility of introduction and the level of onboard telecommunication technology required at sea but also implementing Proof of Concept (PoC), which assumes practical use.





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