Wartsila buys navigation firm Transas to push autonomous shipping
HELSINKI, March 19 (Reuters) - Finnish ship technology company Wartsila Wartsila said the company would help it move forward with its digital marine vision which includes remotely controlled vessels. Transas, which has annual sales of around 140 million euros, has developed a cloud-based platform to manage operations at vessels and ports, Wartsila said in a statement. Wartsila and other companies including ABB (LSE: 0NX2.L - news) , Cargotec and Rolls Royce (LSE: RR.L - news) have teamed up with an aim to bring remote controlled vessels to the Baltic Sea by 2020 and to have a fully autonomous commercial traffic system there by 2025. ($1 = 0.8147 euros) (Reporting by Jussi Rosendahl; editing by Jason Neely)