Cabotage relief boosts transhipment in India, but boxes are empty, claim critics
India’s move to lift cabotage restrictions is benefiting the country’s ports and freight forwarders by ...
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By Alex Lennane
First it was Amazon’s drones, now it’s unmanned ships. In Rolls-Royce’s vision of the future, containerships will be run by crew on shore. Aside from rotors for catching wind, there is no superstructure or crew’s quarters, just containers on a self-steering hull. This vision, however, remains some way off as it seems unlikely, given the parlous financial state of most shipping lines, that the necessary investment is going to be forthcoming any time soon.
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