All Hands Off Deck ?? The Legal Barriers to Autonomous Ship
Year: 20xx Language: english Author: Luci Carey Publisher: National University of Singapore Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 32 Description: Autonomous or unmanned ships will soon become a reality. This will cause significant disruption to current maritime legal regimes. International maritime law has proved flexible enough to accommodate technological developments, from sail to steam to containerisation, but has evolved over centuries assuming the presence of an onboard crew. This assumption creates some peculiar issues for a crewless ship. This article, without assessing the desirability of such ships, considers the legal position for a completely unmanned ship3 and whether such a ship can provide the functional equivalents of a crew, master, and pilot that will allow an autonomous ship to comply with existing international and domestic maritime laws. In order to determine what criteria the autonomous ship will need in order to comply, the article considers where the law demands a human presence on-board a ship. In particular, the article considers how the autonomous ship can comply with seaworthiness obligations, safe manning levels, the duties of the shipmaster, and compulsory pilotage.
Contents
1 Introduction 2 The proposed ships 3 Manning Levels and Seaworthiness 4 Compliance with COLREGS 5 The Master 6 Pilotage 7 Conclusion
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All Hands Off Deck ?? The Legal Barriers to Autonomous Ship
Language: english
Author: Luci Carey
Publisher: National University of Singapore
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 32
Description: Autonomous or unmanned ships will soon become a reality. This will cause significant disruption to current maritime legal regimes. International maritime law has proved flexible enough to accommodate technological developments, from sail to steam to containerisation, but has evolved over centuries assuming the presence of an onboard crew. This assumption creates some peculiar issues for a crewless ship.
This article, without assessing the desirability of such ships, considers the legal position for a completely unmanned ship3 and whether such a ship can provide the functional equivalents of a crew, master, and pilot that will allow an autonomous ship to comply with existing international and domestic maritime laws. In order to determine what criteria the autonomous ship will need in order to comply, the article considers where the law demands a human presence on-board a ship. In particular, the article considers how the autonomous ship can comply with seaworthiness obligations, safe manning levels, the duties of the shipmaster, and compulsory pilotage.
Contents
1 Introduction2 The proposed ships
3 Manning Levels and Seaworthiness
4 Compliance with COLREGS
5 The Master
6 Pilotage
7 Conclusion
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