News / Better communication and data sharing key to establishing JIT shipping

Hamburg - Container terminal in the evening

24/02/2020

The maritime industry is ramping-up efforts to optimise port calls and introduce just-in-time (JIT) shipping.

If successful, the IMO and IAPH-led initiatives could tackle two of liner shipping’s biggest challenges: improving schedule reliability and meeting the industry’s ambitious decarbonisation targets.

For example, a major cause of potentially ...

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