Automated handling in Santos “impracticable”

Demand is not sufficient to justify the large investment that an automated terminal would need, the research also found Photo: RenatoThadoo/Pixabay/CC0 Creative Commons

A research project undertaken by three civil engineering students at Universidade Santa Cecília in Brazil''s Santos has suggested that introducing an automated container terminal at the Port of Santos is currently “impracticable”.

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