How the internet of things is transforming cold chain management

 30-March-2020

Fresh food, perishable goods, urgent medical supplies and sensitive vaccines all require very particular storage conditions across long voyages. They need precise environmental controls, which in turn requires the correct infrastructure and rigorous standards. This is the cold chain, a unique supply chain of cooled storage and refrigerated transport.

Alternative uses for shipping containers

 16-March-2020

Containerised shipping accounted for 1.82 billion tonnes of global trade in 2017. With so many containers traversing the waves in such high rates, the question of what to do with disused containers is an extremely pertinent one—in particular, ports in the Philippines, Nigeria, Kenya and the United Kingdom are struggling with a surplus of empty boxes.

What is a Smart Port?

 05-March-2020

With ships getting bigger and global trade flowing in larger and faster rates than ever, the world’s major ports are struggling to keep up. Many are turning to artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT) to better manage the flow of goods, save money and improve efficiency. This digital transformation....

The Road and Rail Routes of the New Silk Road

 31-Jan-2020

Last week we took to the water to discover how China’s Belt & Road Initiative is transforming maritime trade. But that’s only part of the story.

In addition to upgrading port infrastructure and creating new continent-spanning trade agreements, China is investing in a vast multimodal network of roads and railways across Eurasia, intended to link...

Belt and Road: China’s Big Ambition for Global Trade

 23-Jan-2020

China’s efforts to revive the ancient Silk Road is a gargantuan project. Called the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, this global development and investment strategy involves 152 countries, and has even designed to create a single economic area linking markets with new overland and maritime trade routes—the eponymous ‘belt’ and ‘road’ respectively.

Intermodal Asia returns to Shanghai: The World's Busiest Port

 15-Jan-2020

The world's largest port is a key factor in the economies of China and Asia as a whole. It boasts high-tech smart terminals, and last year handled over 42 million TEUs, over a quarter of all international trading volume in China. This is in part thanks to the deep water Yangshan Port, which was built in 2005 to allow the Port of Shanghai to grow despite shallow waters near the shore.

Making Shipping Smarter: How the IoT is Transforming the Industry

 09-Jan-2020

The global transformation of container shipping as a result of new technology is at the heart of Intermodal Asia. This innovation, spearheaded by Chinese firms and global intermodal giants alike, represents new priorities within the industry, particularly a desire for much...

69 ways to attract visitors to your exhibition stand

11-Nov-2019

Exhibitions can be crowded and fast-paced. If your firm is exhibiting, you only have a limited opportunity to stand out from the crowd, to make your stand really pop and get visitors flocking to see what your company has to offer.

Road and rail: Transforming the industry

 01-Nov-2019

While container shipping dominates the conversation, it is only part of the intermodal story. Across the world, shipping companies and freight forwarders still rely on road and rail networks to move goods, because both options continue to offer considerable
advantages.

Belt and Road: China's plan to revive the Silk Road

 10-Oct-2019

We still entertain romantic notions of the Silk Road: of silks, spices and porcelain borne by camel through mountains, oases, cities and deserts with evocative names like Sogdia, Samarkand and Transoxiana. For centuries, these trade routes were the commercial arteries of Eurasia, taking goods and people between China and the West.

Are autonomous ships the future of smart shipping?

30-Sep-2019

Autonomous drones are increasingly commonplace and driverless cars are lauded as the future of automobiles, but you don’t often hear shipping spoken about in the same breath.But, within the shipping industry, autonomy is no longer the stuff of...

Getting to grips with container innovation

11-Sep-2019

Containerised shipping accounted, in 2017, for 1.82 billion tonnes of global trade. Currently, there are around 22 million containers plying the oceans, but for ports with a significant trade imbalance – those that import more than they export – they are causing huge problems. Empty containers stack up.

Intermodal Europe returns to Hamburg - a global hub for the container and intermodal industries

 03-Sep-2019

Just days ago, the Port of Hamburg reported a 4.1 percent growth in seaborne cargo handling, and a 7.5 percent increase in container handling.

Europe’s third-largest port is vital to Germany’s export economy. It boasts seventeen terminals, and last year handled 69.4 million tonnes of seaborne cargo and berthed 3,046 container ships.