{"id":83343,"date":"2018-10-06T20:22:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T03:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/mca-dft-awarded-1million-to-boost-autonomous-shipping-industry"},"modified":"2018-10-07T17:00:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:00:39","slug":"mca-dft-awarded-1million-to-boost-autonomous-shipping-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/mca-dft-awarded-1million-to-boost-autonomous-shipping-industry","title":{"rendered":"MCA &amp; DfT awarded \u00a31million to boost autonomous shipping industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mca-dft-awarded-1million-to-boost-autonomous-shipping-industry.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The funding, awarded by the UK Government\u2019s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy\u2019s Regulators\u2019 Pioneer Fund, will be used to pioneer new ways of regulating the autonomous and smart shipping industries to help them deliver innovative new technologies to the traditional maritime sector.<\/p>\n<p>The global autonomous shipping industry is predicted to grow into a $136 billion behemoth by 2030, with UK businesses already playing a key role. The funding will see the creation of the Maritime Autonomy Regulation Lab, where regulators from the MCA and DfT can work with academia and support industry to promote on-water testing and flagship projects and help the UK grow its presence in the global marketplace.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/news\/210827\">https:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/news\/210827<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funding, awarded by the UK Government\u2019s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy\u2019s Regulators\u2019 Pioneer Fund, will be used to pioneer new ways of regulating the autonomous and smart shipping industries to help them deliver innovative new technologies to the traditional maritime sector. The global autonomous shipping industry is predicted to grow into a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83382,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83343\/revisions\/83382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}