{"id":221422,"date":"2017-07-24T17:40:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T15:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=221422"},"modified":"2017-07-24T17:42:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T15:42:19","slug":"worlds-first-autonomous-cargo-ship-to-launch-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/221422-worlds-first-autonomous-cargo-ship-to-launch-next-year.html","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s first autonomous cargo ship to launch next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s first remotely-operated, crewless cargo ship is set to embark on its maiden voyage next year, reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/norway-takes-lead-in-race-to-build-autonomous-cargo-ships-1500721202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Yara Birkeland is an autonomous cargo ship created by Norwegian companies Yara International and Kongsberg Gruppen.<\/p>\n<p>The ship is battery-powered and priced at $25 million, but will have low\u00a0operating costs and can be operated via a ground station.<\/p>\n<p>The autonomous vessel is expected to launch in late 2018 and will initially feature an onboard bridge with crew and controllers.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the bridge will become an on-shore operation centre and the ship will be controlled with no crew aboard.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5VBD7hVRhx0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/190492-virgin-galactics-new-spaceship-completes-first-free-flight.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Virgin Galactic\u2019s new spaceship completes first free flight<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s first remotely-operated, crewless cargo ship is set to embark on its maiden voyage next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":221424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[44808,44806,44804],"class_list":["post-221422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-autonomous-ships","tag-norway","tag-yara-birkeland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221458,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221422\/revisions\/221458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}