Ports benefitting from IoT & autonomous cars

"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”.

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