Cargotec projects tackle industry inefficiencies

The programme aims to address the largest challenges in maritime, cargo transport and logistics and will see Kalmar collaborate with Arundo Analytics, Cogniac and Predictronics; MacGregor partner with Arundo Analytics, Geollect, Intelligent Cargo Systems and NauticAI; and Navis co-operate with Loginno, a logistics IoT visionary.

“I genuinely believe these projects have the potential to solve important inefficiencies in our industry,” said Tero Hottinen, director of emerging digital business at Cargotec. “When we joined the Rainmaking programme, our goal was to find partners with whom we could make an impact already in the short-term. A lot of work has been done to get to this point, but what we have found is exactly what we aimed for – several great opportunities to impact international cargo flow together.”

Ongoing projects aim to develop Kalmar’s service offering, while Dennis Mol, vice president, digitalisation & business transformation at MacGregor, explained: “Cases with high potential impact are being worked on, ranging from proactive, predictive maintenance to smartly-guided lashing processes, feasibility tested spot cargo scoutings and safer mooring, enabled through a non-connected IoT solution.”

An example of the co-operation between Navis and Loginno will be their joint involvement in the Contopia competition, an initiative aimed towards shipping companies looking to connect their containers to IoT producing real-time data. The winner will equip their fleet with Loginno’s patented asset tracking devices.