Russian port of Bronka has started testing an innovative container for bulk cargoes, writes PortNews. The container is developed by Russian company UNA and promoted by KOTTA Container, both firms are based in St. Petersburg. The framework of the container is made of steel, passed preliminary trials according to the program and methodology approved by the […]
The corporate venture capital arm of PSA International, PSA unboXed, sends out its second call for action for its incubator programme, inviting start-ups and potential partners to propose technology solutions to support PSA’s project Container Port 4.0 (CP4.0), writes Singaporean The Business Times. CP4.0 is PSA’s transformational blueprint developing the Port of the Future, that […]
Gulftainer, a privately owned United Arab Emirates port operator, has successfully implemented the Marine and Container Handling (MACH) terminal operating system (TOS), writes TradeArabia. The new TOS will be rolled out across Gulftainer terminals in the UAE in a phased manner in collaboration with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), an IT services, digital and business solutions […]
Yesterday Maersk and IBM unveiled a new mutual project to develop a new solution based on blockchain technology to manage transactions between shipping lines, shippers, freight forwarders, ports and customs. The product is said to be available already later this year. Applying innovative blockchain technology, known also as the basis for the Bitcoin virtual money, […]
DP World Group Chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk met last week at the World Government Summit in Dubai, as announced in DP World’s statement. At the meeting, they discussed potential application of Tesla’s state-of-the-art technology in port operations. In particular, the discussion concerned the use of Tesla […]
The port of Koper, Slovenia, inaugurated on Tuesday the crane rail tracks and the two new RMG cranes which are to substantially increase train loading capacity at the container terminal, as announced in its press release. The RMG technology has never been applied in Luka Koper before. The introduction of the new technology required the […]
Inamer S.L., an engineering company from Algeciras (Spain) with several container terminal maintenance service contracts, is attracting interest from spreader manufacturers with its Flexi-Flipper developed in cooperation with engineers from Cádiz University, writes World Cargo News. Unlike a regular one-piece flipper on an STS crane spreader, the patented Flexi-Flipper comprises upper and lower heavy duty […]
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To transfer large amounts of corporate data to the cloud as part of a migration effort can be rather a challenging task for a company. Just imagine: moving petabytes (1 mln gigabytes) or exabytes (1 bln gigabytes) of financial records, AutoCAD design drawings, engineering documentation, simulation files, scientific data, satellite images and corporate videos by […]
Today is a closing day of Intermodal Europe 2016, an international container transport and logistics fair and conference, this year taking place in Rotterdam. The exhibition is a perfect place to showcase the latest innovations, products and logistic solutions. Some of them are presented by a Finnish company Tamtron, developer and producer of innovative weighing […]
