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February 27, 2014 Category Logistics, Short news
Ports & sea transport
- Qingdao Port handled 450 million tons of cargo last year, an increase of 10.6%. Its container throughput grew 7% to 15.52 million TEU in 2013. The achievements made Qingdao the world’s seventh-busiest port by both cargo and container volumes, up one notch from a year earlier, according to the Shanghai Shipping Exchange.
- In an age of aerial drones and driver-less cars, Rolls-Royce is designing unmanned cargo ships. The Rolls-Royce’s Blue Ocean development team has set up a virtual-reality prototype at its office in Alesund, Norway. Eventually, the London-based manufacturer of engines and turbines says, captains on dry land will use similar control centers to command hundreds of crewless ships. Drone ships would be safer, cheaper and less polluting for the USD375 billion shipping industry that carries 90% of world trade, Rolls-Royce says. But Simon Bennett, Spokesman for the International Chamber of Shipping, said unmanned ships were illegal under international conventions that set minimum crew requirements.
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