Port Technology (PTI) is proud to announce the launch of its inaugural Smart Ports & Supply Chain Technologies Conference which is to be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from 2-3 October 2018. Following on from PTI’s highly successful Container Terminal Automation (CTAC) conferences, this latest offering takes a much broader, daring and dynamic scope, as the event gathers key smart ports,… Read more »
Port Technology is able to offer, for a limited amount of time, all its papers from the most popular and latest edition of its journal ‘Linking the Supply Chain’ as free to access until July 25, 2018. Technological advancements are multiplying human development by factors never before imagined, which means it is imperative that… Read more »
By Jean-Paul Rodrigue An artificial consensus While presenting at recent transportation trade conferences I expressed rather skeptical views about the potential of Blockchains for logistics, which raised a few eyebrows and critiques. The industry is currently drinking its own cool-aid and caught in the standard hype cycle where the benefits of a new technology are… Read more »
The 6th Global Rail Freight Conference (June 26-28, 2018) has discussed the urgent need to increase rail connections between the Italian national railway network and Italian ports to develop intermodal services that facilitate, through the TEN-T corridors, the exchange of goods with Europe. The event was organized by Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane and Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer (UIC),… Read more »
Interporto Bologna SpA, a logistics hub, is to cooperate with Remind Logistics to establish a new service running from Chieti (Region Abruzzo and around 2o km from Pescara port) via the Bologna to Wuppertal (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). The new connection will start at the beginning of September 2018 and will be operated by DB Cargo… Read more »
Combalia Agencia Maritima has set up a direct monthly service for vehicle shipments from Europe to South America with ro-ro provider NYK. The first departure left Bremerhaven, Germany, on May 19 before calling at Zeebrugge. Cargo from Spain is also being taken on-board by NYK through several regular port calls in Barcelona, Sagunto and Vigo…. Read more »
DHL, the world’s leading mail and logistics company, have announced the launch of DHL SmarTrucking — an innovative trucking solution leveraging Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The new solution, which is currently being rolled out across road networks in India, equips trucks with IoT sensors to provide real-time data analysis for route optimization, reducing… Read more »
The e-commerce giant Alibaba Group and its logistics arm Cainiao Network have invested US$ 1.38 billion in securing a 10% stake in the Chinese delivery company ZTO Express as part of a digital retail strategy. Once the companies have closed the deal on an expected date in early June 2018, Cainiao and ZTO will further… Read more »
The Port of Dunkirk has published the results of a public consultation exercise, which appears to back its CAP 2020 project aimed at putting it at the forefront of North Continent deep sea lo-lo ports, with new 22,000 TEU + berths and a new logistics complex in the Western Docks. The port designed the CAP… Read more »
Before going into the specifics about the potential impacts of automation of maritime shipping, it is important to underline that although automation can be solely considered at the port terminal level, it also takes place across entire supply chains. The fourth industrial revolution: The big picture of value chains Actors usually optimize the systems they… Read more »
