World’s first “smart” port brings industrial internet to the loading docks

Interested in real-time data of precise ship arrival time and the fastest land travel routes? Good. In Germany, dockworkers will soon be tapping into a mobile app to see when ships will arrive. “As giant container ships pull into the Port of Hamburg, Germany, in the coming years, an array of new technologies will define the future of the $4 trillion global shipping industry,” states in the article published in Rewrite. The new logistics platform of Hamburg Porth Authority is called a smartPort. Is the application going to change the way we handle ships and containers? Explore the core elements of the smartPort Initiative at: http://rewrite.ca.com/us/articles/application-economy/the-industrial-internet-comes-to-the-loading-docks.aspx

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