The transportation of cargo around the world is routine business for the shipping industry, but delivering about 11 billion tons of goods a year is a process that is fraught with risk. Lost containers ...

In an effort to shore up a huge security issue in international trade, General Electric announced today it has completed commercial field testing of its Tamper Evident Secure Container (TESC) ...

Smart devices have the potential to radically transform the utility and value of shipping container equipment assets. According to Drewry, Smart containers have increased in prominence in a very short ...

Electrical grid complexity has increased immensely. Recently, weather damage and intermittent renewable energy production have increased the dynamics that must be managed in a large power grid. In ...

China International Marine Containers Ltd. (CIMC) and Savi Technology are establishing a partnership to co-develop "smart and secure" shipping containers. The containers will wirelessly transmit ...

Global shipping brand Evergreen Line has begun outfitting its dry container fleet with smart container technology supplied by Orbcomm. The technology deployment aims to provide advanced cargo ...

On-board, berthed and on the marina, smart technologies are driving widespread digitalization — a process which has the potential to guide shipping processes into the future. Digitization in the ...

The logistics industry as a whole is slow to embrace digital change, yet container shipping has been especially reluctant to dispense with analog methods. Complex decisions on empty-container moves ...

A start-up backed by Maersk, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and CMA CGM has developed a standard for data transmission from smart containers, a step toward giving shippers better visibility of ...

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