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type: thesis
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creators_name: Habdank, Janis
title: Exploring the barriers and opportunities of the trend towards autonomous shipping
ispublished: pub
full_text_status: public
abstract: The trend towards high automation has also reached the shipping sector, leading to an increasingly gaining momentum for the concept of unmanned and autonomous vessels. This study specifically explores the barriers and opportunities of the trend towards autonomous shipping for two points of view: the general shipping sector and a port environment (case study port of Hamburg). The insights are additionally examined under the umbrella of transition theory. While the possibility to improve navigational safety is the most prominent opportunity, dismal social prospects (e.g. demise of seafaring profession) and the constrained compatibility of the existing legal and regulatory framework (e.g. conventions tailored to manned shipping) stand out as barriers. The results of this thesis are aimed at contributing a new perspective to the yet emerging body of knowledge on the concept of autonomous shipping to aid shipping stakeholders in future decision making and support planners in preparing shipping environments respectively.
date: 2019
date_type: published
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: EIP
tutors_name: Leendertse, W. L.
tutors_name: Ripken, M.
keywords_local: Shipping sector
keywords_local: Transition theory
keywords_local: Barriers and opportunities
keywords_local: Autonomous shipping
keywords_local: Port environments
keywords_local: Port of Hamburg
language_iso: en
titleorder: Exploring the barriers and opportunities of the trend towards autonomous shipping
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date_issued: 2019-01-01
citation:   Habdank, Janis  (2019) Exploring the barriers and opportunities of the trend towards autonomous shipping.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/1476/1/Master_Thesis_Janis_Habdank.pdf