News / Hapag-Lloyd begins roll-out of trackers for its 1.6m containers this month

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Hapag-Lloyd is to begin installing new real-time tracking and telemetry devices across their fleet of standard containers at the end of the month.

This will entail investment of around $250m across the shipping line’s 1.6 million boxes.

While many reefer containers are already fitted with such equipment, Hapag-Lloyd is considered a first-mover in equipping ordinary containers with tracking, which includes GPS location data, temperature measurement and the logging of sudden vibrations like shocks to the container.

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