What does it take to make autonomous inland waterway transport work in a real logistics chain?
After four years of research, development and testing, SEAMLESS is ready to bring the pieces together.
On 21 October 2026 in Antwerp, the SEAMLESS Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) Demo will showcase how technologies developed across the project can work together to enable a new generation of automated waterborne freight transport.
Because autonomous vessels are only part of the story.
Over the past four years, the SEAMLESS consortium has worked on the wider ecosystem needed to make automation possible across the transport chain. The demo will bring these developments into action, showcasing solutions for autonomous navigation and remote operation, automated mooring and cargo handling, smart port calls and logistics planning, and secure digital communication and data exchange through ModalNET. (....)