{"id":6828,"date":"2008-11-05T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2008\/11\/05\/automated-challenge\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T12:24:00","slug":"automated-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/equipment\/automated-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Automated challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is technically possible to stack empties 11-high, and nine-high stacks are quite common, says Royal Haskoning&#8217;s Jan van Beemen: &#8220;However, such a high stack has its own problems, as the empties may blow off in high winds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says export\/import imbalances have once again turned people&#8217;s minds to the possibility of foldable containers &#8211; an idea that has been around for some time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the empty problem increases, so does the interest and creativity in the area of foldable containers. But whether it will come to a practical and economically viable foldable container, I doubt. It is a real engineering challenge to design a foldable container of sufficient strength and robustness, able to withstand stacking and the enormous pressures of being at sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The increasing move towards automated container terminal systems is throwing up even more challenges in handling empties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6828"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}