HD Hyundai unit to commercialize Level 2 autonomous navigation system this year
INCHEON (Yonhap) -- Avikus, a unit of South Korea's leading shipbuilding group HD Hyundai, said Tuesday it aims to commercialize its Level 2 autonomous navigation system in global markets within this year.
Avikus has sold 210 units of the Level 1 system, mostly to overseas shippers that operate high-end commercial ships such as container carriers and liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships.
Avikus now aims to sell the Level 2 system for those commercial ships later this year and then to leisure boats starting next year.
"The autonomous navigation system market has just opened. The commercial ship market is limited so we are also looking to the leisure boat market to sell our autonomous navigation system," Avikus Chief Executive Lim Do-hyeong said in a press conference.
The company will initially focus on promoting its Level 2 autonomous navigation system in the United States as the country has 50 percent of the world's registered leisure boats, Lim said.
Moreover, it plans to participate in the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show in October to showcase the Level 2 technology and receive orders from shippers.
This photo taken on July 12, 2022 and provided by Avikus shows a leisure boat equipped with its autonomous navigation system at Wangsan Marina in Incheon, just west of Seoul. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
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