News / Hapag-Lloyd's box tracker will 'close logistics blind spots'

With two-thirds of its 2.9m teu container fleet fitted with Orbcomm and Nexxiot tracking devices, Hapag-Lloyd this week inaugurated its box tracking service, Live Position.

Use of trackers is already habitual in reefer markets, where cargo owners must keep watch over their cargo to ensure it remains at the correct temperature and pressure.

It has also long been possible for cargo owners, freight forwarders and BCOs to infer the position of their container via ship AIS data – as long as ...