News / Maritime
HarbourMind puts twelve autonomous vessels into commercial service
Norway's maritime sandbox delivers its first fleet-scale result as supervised coastal cargo runs become routine between Trondheim and Bergen.
Company · Norway
HarbourMind
Norwegian maritime autonomy company retrofitting coastal cargo vessels with autonomous navigation and remote operations.
- Headquarters
- Trondheim, Norway
- Founded
- 2019
- Sectors
- Maritime, AI
- Technology
- Autonomous navigation, Remote operations, Sensor fusion
Latest coverage
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Timeline
- 2019Spun out of NTNU marine cybernetics research.
- 2023First uncrewed coastal crossing under Norwegian sandbox rules.
- 2026Twelve vessels in commercial supervised-autonomy service.
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