Maritime Monitoring

MARCH 11, 2016—The Maersk Group envisions that one day it will be able to use drones for vessel inspections, firefighting, surveillance for navigation and anti-piracy operations, and to deliver vital goods to its ships at sea—saving the operator a great deal of money and time. That’s why Maersk Tankers, one the group’s business units, recently tested a commercial drone to deliver a 1.2 kg package—a box of cookies—to the tanker Maersk Edgar at sea. The company blogged about the test on its website:…