Eastern Pacific signs up for Korean autonomous navigation tech

Avikus signs autonomous navigation deal with Singapore's EPS

Avikus CEO Lim Do-hyeoung, third from right, and EPS Technical Director Sachin Saharawat, third from left, pose for a commemorative photo following the signing ceremony in Singapore. [Photo courtesy of EPS] South Korea’s Avikus, HD Hyundai’s autonomous ship technology company, has signed its first major international retrofit contract, partnering with Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) to supply AI-based autonomous navigation systems…

Eastern Pacific Shipping and Avikus sign retrofit contract for AI-based autonomous navigation solution

The agreement will see Avikus’ HiNAS Control, SVM and HiNAS Cloud systems deployed on two EPS-managed vessels – a bulk carrier and a suezmax tanker.

Eastern Pacific signs up for Korean autonomous navigation tech

Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) has lined up two of its managed vessels for the installation of artificial intelligence-based autonomous navigation technology developed by Hyundai Heavy Industries’s subsidiary Avikus. The project will see Avikus’ Hyundai intelligent Navigation Assistant System (HiNAS) Control, HiNAS Cloud and analytics platform for shore-side fleet monitoring deployed on a bulk carrier …