A world-first passenger ferry with advanced autonomous navigation has been unveiled in Japan, an Asian non-profit which is involved in a project to commercialise automated vessels announced on Thursday.
The Olympia Dream Seto ferry transports passengers between the Shin-Okayama port in Okayama Prefecture and Tonosho port in Kagawa Prefecture, and would start operating semi-autonomously from 11 December, according to the Nippon Foundation.
As Japan experiences a shrinking and ageing population, the country has been facing a crisis of human resource scarcity across several fields.
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