In this episode, we speak to Oskar Levander, Vice President of Marine Innovation at Rolls-Royce and a pioneering thinker on the subject of remote and autonomous vessels and intelligent ships. We began by asking about the Rolls-Royce Blue Ocean Team, what it does, and why it's important.

As someone so closely associated with the development of remote controlled and unmanned vessels we were interested in Oskar's view about how mature the technology is today, and how key the improvements in connectivity are to its development in the future.

People are talking about the Intelligent Transportation System, but what does that mean, and how might it provide better efficiency and productivity by connecting across the supply chain?

So, how do unmanned and autonomous vessels fit into that picture, together with things like sea traffic management?

Looking into the future, how might the combination of technologies like high-speed connectivity, Artificial Intelligence, and even blockchain change the way that ships are built, operated and deployed? What might the digital shipping business models of the future look like?

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