The right way to insure maritime autonomy

The International Group has endorsed autonomous ships within the mutual system, shifting responsibility for entry, claims and accumulation decisions to individual clubs

THE International Group of P&I Clubs has answered a question the market had been circling for years. Liabilities arising from maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS) are eligible for pooling at every level of autonomy, fully unmanned ships included. The acts of staff in a remote operations centre will be treated like the navigational acts of a crew.