China developing first smart oil carrier

Engineers with Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co are working on China's first smart crude oil carrier, which will incorporate technology to help the captain operate the ship.

The company is undertaking a special project named "smart ship 1.0 R&D", assigned by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, according to Guan Yinghua, deputy chief engineer of DSIC.

"The very large intelligent crude carrier will be the most important result of the project," said Guan, adding that smart vessels represent the future.