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Silk Road Maritime container
Silk Road Maritime Containers. Credit: Eric Huang
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Silk Road Shipping, China’s first cross-border e-commerce express container shipping alliance, reached a new milestone last week, when it deployed specially designed smart containers for the first time.

The containers use Internet of Things technology, enabling users to visualise container flows through mobile communication, and Beidou, ...

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