Re: Rolls-Royce are deluded
I have done almost exactly that.
The autodock is far better at it than any pilot - the only real reason for pilotage these days is because of not wanting to update all the charts daily.
I never sailed the English Channel, but the run up to the Gatun Locks is considerably more congested - albeit that was a 76000 tonne as nothing bigger fits.
Ship maneuvers are laughably simple to automate, while also being incredibly difficult for a human, because they are slow.
Humans don't really see cm/s speeds, but sensors can - and so actually stop the ship before ramming the pier, where a human is fairly likely to overcook it.