Dutch tank storage firm Vopak is developing innovation pilots in Singapore with the use of drones and robots to achieve smart tank terminal operations.
As with many other industries, key players in maritime are increasingly spurred on to accelerate innovation and adopt new technologies in a bid to stay ahead of the curve.
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) will work with Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) on a project to develop technologies to enhance vessel reliability and boost energy-saving through improvements in steering gear control.
How shipping can utilise big data to avoid yet further commodisation of its service and improve safety of operations was a topic panelists at grappled with at the Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA) conference last week.
Josh Shapiro coo of Liberty Maritime/Liberty Global Logistics cut through the buzzwords associated with the digitalization of shipping to explain the real benefits the company is seeing from the process.
When you read of a project that gives the impression that it was devised by the criminally insane, how can you retain courtesy and politeness in your response?