News / Shippers get smart as use of container tracking devices on a per-trip basis soars

Declining asset costs and a variety of external factors are driving the container shipping industry into increasing use of container tracking and monitoring devices.

Speaking to The Loadstar on the sidelines of the recent TOC Container Supply Chain conference in Hamburg, Mike Dempsey, vice president of containers and ports at mobile asset tracking technology firm Orbcomm, said the surge of interest in monitoring cargo in the reefer sector would be be followed by interest from dry cargo shippers.

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