FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin The autonomous-ship debate has moved from “can it work?” to “how do we run it safely?” The answer is an operating-model change, not a technology project, argues Peny Zerva, Customer Experience Lead at 90POE. For most of my career in vetting and HSQE, autonomous ships lived in the same drawer as flying cars: interesting, always ten years away. That drawer is now open. In 2026 the IMO adopted the MASS Code – its Code of Safety for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships – and EU- and state-backed trials have largely settled the feasibility argument. RelatedNews HD Hyundai accelerates AI transformation across shipbuilding Alphaliner: There is potential for 27,500-teu container ships var jnews_module_21381880_0_6aa3de03a4e8d = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21381880","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"1503,1504,4212,1184","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_random":"","ads_image":"","ads_image_tablet":"","ads_imag