MV COSCO Shipping Aries, delivered to COSCOS Tuesday, is the first ever container ship to receive LR’s Cyber-enabled ship descriptive note ‘Cyber AL3 Secure Perform’ for its energy management system. The ship was built by Nantong COSCOS KHI Ship Engineering Co., Ltd or NACKS.
MV COSCO Shipping Aries is the first 20K TEU level ultra large container ship built in Chinese shipyard owned by COSCO Shipping Container Lines.
The Aries 20K TEU vessel is the largest and most advanced container ship to be delivered by the Chinese shipyard so far. The ship is 400 meters long, 58.6 meters wide with molded breadth of 30.7 meters and maximum load of 197,000 tons. Its deck area is larger than 4 standard football fields.
She is not only one of the largest container ships in the world, but also a ship with high cyber functions.
The ship complies with the revised version of LR's Cyber-enabled ships ShipRight procedure, issued in December 2017.
The descriptive note gives an Accessibility Level or AL for autonomous/remote access for the system, which ranges from the information-only AL0 or no access and AL1 or manual access through AL2 or cyber access for remote or autonomous monitoring up to the highest AL5 or autonomous monitoring and control, with no onboard permission required or override possible.
AL3 is defined by LR as ‘Cyber access for autonomous/remote monitoring and control or onboard permission is required and onboard override is possible.’
‘Cyber-enabled systems’ are considered to be systems installed onboard ships that would conventionally be controlled by the ship’s crew but which, through recent advances in IT and Operational Technology, now include the capability to be monitored, or monitored and controlled, either remotely or autonomously with or without a crew onboard the ship.
The functionality provided by cyber-enabled systems can range from simple remote monitoring with a crew onboard through to a fully autonomous vessel without a crew onboard. Consequently, as the risks can vary considerably, the assessment of cyber-enabled systems requires a risk-based approach to identify the hazards introduced by cyber-enablement and to mitigate the associated risks
