Ports and supply chains involve thousands of independent companies and individuals depending on each other’s policies, plans, and actions to effectively make the right business decisions and run operations. The smart port uses digital data streams to boost collaboration, align activities, and make decisions that improve vital processes across their operations. Some of the trends…
Delivering data that matters, from periodic events to context-based alerts. Smart containers hold promise for revolutionizing supply chains. As leading carriers adopt smart container solutions, they gain valuable data that can be shared with shippers and other supply chain stakeholders. But generating and collecting data is not enough to make smart container solutions or supply…
The annual offshore edition of The Maritime Executive Magazine is out now and available online! Read on for a summary of what you’ll find inside. Asia-Pacific shipbuilding dominates the industry, and China gets fifty percent of all new orders. It’s a hot market, estimated at $145 billion and forecast to reach $196 billion by the decade’s…
Location on Hainan Island is well-suited to South China Sea deployments. China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) is known in the West as the world’s largest commercial shipbuilder, but it is also the world’s largest naval shipbuilder by a wide margin, providing new destroyers and corvettes for the swiftly-growing People’s Liberation Army – Navy (PLAN). Among…
COSCO Shipping Ports Limited and Hamburger Hafen und Logistik completed the terms of the investment to be made by the Chinese company into one of Hamburg’s largest container terminals. The deal first announced in September 2021 has been long delayed while Germany’s government debated the level of investment with political complaints that the Chinese would…