Smart container fleet to expand six-fold over the next five years

The global telematics enabled container equipment fleet is forecast to grow six-fold over the next five years and account for 30% of global box inventories by 2027, driven by wider adoption across the dry container fleet. This is one of the main conclusions from Drewry’s recently published Container Census & Leasing Annual Review & Forecast 2023/24 report.

Smart containers have increased in prominence in recent years, a trend that accelerated following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and...

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GSCW chat recap: Could smart containers revolutionize maritime security?

This fireside chat recap is from Day 7 of FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week. Day 7 focuses on global maritime.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: The next revolution in containerization: How a smart container can improve maritime transportation

DETAILS: While the widespread adoption of e-commerce has changed our everyday lives in 2020, the oceangoing container hasn’t changed much since its introduction in the 1970s. That may be changing. Rebecca Fenneman, principal at Jeffrey/Fenneman Law + Strategy PLLC,...

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Smart players using smart container solutions will gain valuable, shareable data

This article is a follow-up to two earlier pieces, produced largely by the same authors, outlining the development of semantic and technical interoperability in digitising global multimodal supply chains. 
Smart Container solutions empower supply chain stakeholders to enhance their operations using reliable physical data to provide door-to-door visibility and AI-based predictive services for deriving predictive event determination, as well as visibility into the status and environmental...

https://theloadstar.com/smart-players-using-smart-container-solutions-will-gain-valuable-shareable-data/

DCSA launches another drive for information sharing

The Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) is continuing its efforts to make information sharing easier.

On Tuesday the nonprofit specifically tackled ship-related information transparency with the publication of standards for the exchange of operational vessel schedules (OVS). The OVS standards can be implemented by vessel operators as well as vessel-sharing agreement partners and operational service providers to enable the automatic sharing of schedule information, according to DCSA.

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New standards published to advance the use of data from smart containers

The quest to develop a set of standards for data collected from smart containers has taken an important step forward.
The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) has published its first set of standards which will help interoperability between different systems in the container supply chain.
UN/CEFACT’s Business Requirements Specifications (BRS) initiative was led by smart container technology developer Traxens, which includes CMA GCM and MSC among its …

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https://theloadstar.com/new-standards-published-to-advance-the-use-of-data-from-smart-containers/

‘Smart’ container fleet set to increase tenfold over next five years

The number of smart containers in the world’s box fleet could increase tenfold over the next five years, according to new research from Drewry Maritime Advisors.
The London-based consultant said in its newly released Container Census & Leasing Annual Review & Forecast 2019/20 report it estimated that, by the end of last year, around 2.5% of the global container fleet had been fitted with smart technology – telematics devices that show …

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Cargofive: Smart containers are taking over the sea

Are there now smart containers? In 1956, the transport entrepreneur Malcom McLean and the mechanical engineer Keith Tantlinger created the first container, but perhaps they never imagined how much it would be changed, although more in its function than in shape. Nowadays, containers do not only serve to move merchandise around but also to provide information that significantly helps the entire maritime and international logistics industry.

Smart containers are taking over the sea shipping. It...

https://container-news.com/cargofive-smart-containers-are-taking-over-the-sea/

Navis, Loginno to explore the smart containers

Navis, a part of Cargotec Corporation announced its strategic cooperation with Loginno, a logistics IoT visionary. With Loginno, Navis takes a step towards helping customers achieve container visibility through the availability of smart container technology at the terminal, on the vessel journey and to inland logistics. This has the potential to provide container shippers with more context on the location and condition of container cargo across the end to end container supply chain.

“We see...

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