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Testing International Legal Regimes: The Advent Of Automated Commercial Vessels, Aldo Chircop
Testing International Legal Regimes: The Advent Of Automated Commercial Vessels, Aldo Chircop
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International shipping is on the eve of a new era where remotely controlled and partially or fully automated and unmanned Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) will be carrying international trade. The regulation of navigation and shipping in the contemporary international law of the sea and international maritime law are premised on human presence and control onboard ships. Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982 and several maritime conventions will need to be revisited to determine how MASS may be accommodated, and where not possible, what further legal development may be needed. Recently, the IMO …