
Pilotage and Towage NewsSep 5, 2017
Wartsila remotely manœuvres OSV Highland Chieftain through low bandwidth satellite
The testing, which involved driving the vessel through a sequence of manoeuvres using a combination of Dynamic Positioning (DP) and manual joystick control, was carried out on August 21 off the North Sea coast of Scotland in collaboration with Gulfmark Offshore, the U.S. based operator who provided the vessel for the project.