Posted on January 21, 2026
Germany’s Hamburg Port Authority, together with the Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services (Fraunhofer CML) and Kongsberg Maritime Germany, has launched a project that seeks to safely integrate semi-autonomous and remotely monitored, low-emission waterborne vehicles such as autonomous surface vessels into complex port environments.
The iPORTUS project is funded with approximately €1.7 million (US$2 million) by the German Federal Ministry for Transport under the IHATEC II funding programme.
The project will focus on ensuring nautical safety and cyber security, developing a high degree of autonomy for the deployed systems, and integrating them into a remote operations centre (ROC).
