Sensors, ‘grey boxes’ and opportunities in an age where ‘data is the new container’

With free trade under threat and globalisation slowing, terminal operator DP World plans to give container supply chains a boost with “an integrated, asset-based approach” to logistics and digitisation.
Andrew Hoad, DP World’s chief executive for Asia Pacific, said digitisation was paving the way for new efficiencies and opportunities to give trade a “helping hand”.
“If transport and logistics providers can really get their act together on digital and on the physical …

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CMA CGM set to equip 50,000 containers with digital tracking

CMA CGM is increasing its digital solutions with the purchase of 50,000 container trackers from the company it part-owns, Traxens.
The carrier said: “As a structuring shareholder and the first to have invested in Traxens in 2012, CMA CGM participated in development, testing it for several years.
“Thanks to the order of 50,000 trackers this year, CMA CGM is implementing its decision to deploy the Traxens solution on a large scale for …

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More interoperability needed as smart containers begin to make their mark

More shipper engagement with carriers offering smart containers is required.
This would bring down the cost of the technology and push it towards ubiquity – although developing interoperability standards will also be key.
On the final day of last week’s TPM conference in Long Beach, Kathryn Delecluse, smart container commercial project manager at MSC, said: “We all know smart containers are the future, but at the moment it is totally customer-orientated because …

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MSC invests in smart containers

MSC’s partnership with TRAXENS will enhance supply chain management for shippers through unprecedented visibility of dry cargo flow from door-to-door, adding efficiency, safety and predictability.

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, a global leader in container shipping and logistics, is increasingly introducing smart container solutions for customers at many locations around the world, using IoT solutions developed by its partner TRAXENS.

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