{"id":941,"date":"2020-04-03T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2020\/04\/03\/how-useful-is-3d-printing-for-ports\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:13:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:13:32","slug":"how-useful-is-3d-printing-for-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2020\/04\/03\/how-useful-is-3d-printing-for-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"How useful is 3D printing for ports?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As 3D printing becomes an increasingly viable reality for businesses, ports and terminals can use this technology to &#8220;reimagine their business models wholesale&#8221;, explained INFORM.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After all, if cargo can be printed at the destination, this will significantly reduce the need for the plethora of long and environmentally damaging voyages containerships take on a daily basis,&#8221; said Matthew Wittemeier, marketing manager, and Karsten Schumacher, senior consultant at INFORM&#8217;s logistics division.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such a model offers a much faster way to deliver goods, a far more environmentally friendly option than traditional shipping, customized production opportunities, and much lower transport costs,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p>There are still challenges to overcome with 3D printing though.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;3D printing is still very expensive and would require extensive usage of raw materials,&#8221; said Mr Wittemeier and Mr Schumacher.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Incidentally, this would likely see the bulk trade boom and the container trade wane,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D printing is an emerging business model that could transform the ports and terminals sector, a technology company has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products-services"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}