According to a recent technology-in-maritime report by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), a vision of an autonomous ship delivering goods across the globe, designed and monitored by artificial intelligence (AI) and powered by mini-nuclear reactors or hydrogen may soon be more than just a scene from a futuristic movie.
Invited by Stena Line to partake in the christening of Stena Ebba, the sister ship of Stena Estelle serving the Gdynia-Karlskrona crossing from September 2022, we boarded the spanking new ro-pax at the Port of Gdynia's Public Ferry Terminal on 10 January 2023.
When dispatching the 'Season's Greetings' e-newsletter last year, we did not wish you for 2022 to return to some pre-corona "normal," realising that times are - and will continue to be - hard. We were, unfortunately, prophetic, as just two months into the year, a barbaric war was set in motion just around the Baltic Sea region's corner.
In his report at the 20th party congress, Xi Jinping outlined the success of his previous term in office while also building upon his vision for the future of the People's Republic.
If 2020-end left Baltic shipyards with any dreams of blossoming, the beginning of this century's third decade buried all hope of turning the region into a multi-yard cruise ship construction hub.
If 2020-end left Baltic shipyards with any dreams of blossoming, the beginning of this century's third decade buried all hope of turning the region into a multi-yard cruise ship construction hub.
