Smart Ports and Robotic Systems

This book provides an extensive overview of smart ports and remote technologies. Progressively, the stakeholders of the maritime and ocean domain, are able to conduct tasks with the help of machine learning, enabling them to interact with the environment in order to achieve pre-set goals while simultaneously promoting safety, security and environmental protection. After revisiting the "vessel autonomy" landscape, this book proceeds to cover a range of topics including port autonomous operations and governance systems, cybersecurity, big data analytics, port state enforcement through the prism of smart ports. The final segment of this book carves out a co-related component, i.e., remote technologies while maintaining a sharp focus on its evolution, the trajectory of national and international regulatory developments. The book will appeal to academics, international organizations, practitioners and policy makers.Chapters 8, 19 and 20 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.