Africa Surveyors January-February issue 2023 digital

AUTONOMOUS MARINE VEHICLES
can lead to misplacement and delay of goods
and services.
For example, container ship and supply vessel
operator A.P. Moller-Maersk became a victim
of a cyber-attack that resulted in a loss of
around $250–300 million for the company.
According to a survey by law firm Clyde &
Co and the Institute of Marine Engineering,
Science & Technology (IMarEST), over twothirds
of marine industry executives surveyed
from across the world fear that unmanned/
autonomous ships present a greater cybersecurity
risk than traditional ships.
Maritime drone swarming for better
surveillance and investigation capabilities is
an emerging trend in the autonomous marine
vehicle market.Maritime drone swarms are a
large group of underwater vehicles moving
together for a particular purpose.
The drone swarm has a wide range of
capabilities in defence applications since it
is capable of performing surveillance and
investigation tasks followed by defensive
or offensive countermeasures.As the swarm
works collectively to navigate through
the underwater environment, it senses a
wider area in a shorter time by making use
of several sensing techniques to build a
comprehensive map of the environment.
For instance, the European Union (EU)
is currently funding a research project
called Ocean2020, which will facilitate
a combination of drones and unmanned
submarines into swarms or fleet units. In
another example, the US Navy’s Undersea
Warfare Center approved a grant of $78,000
for Aquabotix’s SwarmDiver technology to
support the US Navy and allied vessels.
The International Maritime Organization
(IMO) has regulations related to ballast water
management in marine vehicles.Ballast water
is defined as water that is pumped inside a
marine vehicle to maintain safe operating
conditions and operations.
Regulation D-3 by the IMO requires that
ballast water management systems that use
active substances be approved following
the specifications defined by the IMO.As per
the International Convention for the Control
and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and
Sediments, active substances are those which
include a virus or a fungus, having a general
or specific action on or against harmful
aquatic organisms or pathogens.
Hence, regulations such as these would
keep a check on manufacturers of ballast
water management systems as well as the
companies in the autonomous marine vehicle
market.
The countries covered in the autonomous
marine vehicles market report are Australia,
Brazil, China, France, Germany, India,
Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, the UK,
USA.
The market value is defined as the revenues
that enterprises gain from goods and/or
NTNU AMOS
research areas
(from the left):
Mapping and
monitoring,
intelligent
ships and
operations,
intelligent
marine
structures and
operations
and robotic
platforms.|
Source: NTNU
AMOS |image:
credit Annika
Bremvåg
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The revenues for a specified geography
are consumption values – that is, they are
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specified geography within the specified
market, irrespective of where they are
produced. It does not include revenues from
resales either further along the supply chain
or as part of other products.
The autonomous marine vehicles market
research report is one of a series of new
reports that provides autonomous marine
vehicle market statistics, including global
market size, regional shares, competitors with
an autonomous marine vehicle market share,
detailed autonomous marine vehicle market
segments, market trends and opportunities,
and any further data you may need to
thrive in the autonomous marine vehicle
industry. This autonomous marine vehicles
market research report delivers a complete
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in-depth analysis of the current and future
scenario of the industry.
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