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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…

Co-operation between logistics chain stakeholders is more crucial than ever, particularly with ships increasing in size and making demands of public infrastructure that cannot be constructed overnight, Federation of European Private Port…

Productivity improvement is behind growth in many network-critical terminals, with congestion a result of this, a presentation from Hamburg Süd’s global head of marine and terminal operations has claimed.

Trade protectionism has been blamed for an overall slowdown in volumes at world ports in the first quarter of this year, with the throughput growth rate down 2.9 percentage points year-on-year.

TT Club has made an impassioned plea to the container industry to “embrace technology to save lives”.

It isn’t the size of your port that matters – it’s what you do with it. Felicity Landon reports on a new ‘connectivity index’

Avoid the empty promises of automation and think about the bigger productivity picture, advises Alex Hughes.

DP World reports a record 70 million teu passing through its terminals in 2017 allowing the operator to achieve 10.1% volume growth.

Navis chief technology officer (CTO) has identified the technology trends in the ocean shipping sector that he views as having the greatest impact in 2018 and beyond.

Work place injuries still account for almost a third of insurance claims costs for ports and terminals according to TT Club analyses.

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.