News / Sensors, 'grey boxes' and opportunities in an age where 'data is the new container'

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With free trade under threat and globalisation slowing, terminal operator DP World plans to give container supply chains a boost with “an integrated, asset-based approach” to logistics and digitisation.

Andrew Hoad, DP World’s chief executive for Asia Pacific, said digitisation was paving the way for new efficiencies and opportunities to give trade a “helping hand”.

“If transport and logistics providers can really get their act together on digital and on the physical conveyance of goods, so much cost can be taken out ...