The German newspaper Die Welt featured an article about autonomous ships on  December 28, 2013. Although fully automated ships are not a new idea, only now the technology is developed further to realize them. Rolls Royce strongly believes in their future, and thus, drives the realization. As a research project, co-funded by the European Commission, MUNIN aims to develop and verify a concept for an autonomous ship.

You can read the full article here. (only in German)