BULK HANDLING

Ports benefitting from IoT & autonomous cars

8 years ago

The container port sector is benefitting from huge investments from start-ups and major technology businesses due to the enormous mass-market opportunity for technologies connected to the Internet of Things and autonomous cars — “a market … several orders of magnitude larger than the container shipping industry”.

"We will see new solutions, lower prices and faster progress for technology that can also be applied to our specialised field,” Kalmar's Mr Hämäläinen said Photo: Kalmar

The container port sector is benefitting from huge investments from start-ups and major technology businesses due to the enormous mass-market opportunity for technologies connected to the Internet of Things and autonomous cars — “a market … several orders of magnitude larger than the container shipping industry”.