Bulk Handling

What does the Internet of Things bring to ports, asks Felicity Landon

August’s Drewry global container port throughput index reached an all-time high of 126.8 points.

Recovery seems to be on the horizon for some regions, finds Iain MacIntyre

Carly Fields learns about ATOM’s mission to improve automation experiences

“Visionaries will sketch the future,” Garmt Nieuwsma of the World Port Hackathon organisation recently stated. And now we have a date for that event – September 1, 2017.

The Internet of Things (IoT) could give greater momentum to the industry’s slow uptake of technological solutions, according to Michael Dempsey, vice-president for Container and Port Solutions at ORBCOMM.

In 2016, 126 ports handled more than 1m teu of containers, according to DynaLiners’ ‘The Millionaires’ roundup, which found 82 ports had grown.

WSP’s Johan-Paul Verschuure & Andrew Penfold ask if consortiums are the new development model