By the second quarter 2018, an offshore vessel, 35 meters long, will be commercially operational in the North Sea with no crew on board at all, says Brett Phaneuf, who heads a project under the name Hrönn at UK-based company Automated Ships Ltd.
The British company has now signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Norwegian equipment supplier Kongsberg for the design and construction of the vessel.
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