ORCAUBOAT’s autonomous navigation system receives China Classification Society type approval

ORCAUBOAT, China-based developer of autonomous maritime technologies, has recently received two major certification approvals from the China Classification Society (CCS), China national certification society and member of IACS. In addition, ORCAUBOAT’s CTO Yuwei Cheng was appointed as a Regional Committee Member of the CCS in October 2025, further deepening the strategic partnership between the two organizations.

🎤 Yuwei Cheng, CTO of ORCAUBOAT, commented: “Our ORCA-APAS System, based on months of continuous research and testing at offshore test site in Hainan, covering various scenario elements such as different sea conditions, weather, lighting, and obstacle types, has successfully passed the professional inspection of CCS experts. This certification is not a simple test certification, but a genuine product-level type approval, marking the official industry access granted to China’s independently developed marine-grade unmanned system“.

This system is also currently the only intelligent driving system in China to simultaneously obtain type approvals for unmanned ship perception, autonomous navigation system, and intelligent navigation system from the CCS, as well as a ship product certificate, laying a solid compliance foundation for its global commercial deployment.

Through self-developed autonomous navigation processor and equipped with 4D millimeter-wave radar, lidar, marine camera and other hight performance sensors, ORCA-APAS system enables advanced assistance functions such as advanced perception, autonomous navigation, autonomous obstacle avoidance, and autonomous docking and undocking.

ORCAUBOAT’s APAS has been deployed in over 1,000 unmanned vessels and intelligent ships across more than 120 waterways worldwide, accumulating over 750,000 kilometers of unmanned operation. In the maritime domain, APAS is deployed in core scenarios such as marine environmental monitoring, maritime safety patrols, and emergency rescue operations, delivering solutions for marine research, maritime inspection, law enforcement, and rescue agencies.

📃📷 Source: ORCAUBOAT