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Shipping ports feeling the affects of supply chain delays across Canada

Canadian Manufacturing

The pandemic sent shockwaves through the global supply chain and the backlogs are mounting even as freight volumes fall in North America this year. But containers sat on its docks for nearly six days on average, almost twice as long as in 2019 and a 41 per cent increase from 2021. Meanwhile cargo vessels sat at anchor for 9.6

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View from India: Mixed tech makes IR journey memorable

E&T

Wabtec Corporation is a global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for the freight and transit rail industries. Along with that, a sustainable rail cargo may be worthwhile, as there could be fewer parts to assemble and the locomotive weight is reduced.

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Nature-inspired tech to move transport towards net-zero

E&T

He and his team use nature-inspired computing – a form of artificial intelligence that is based on how the natural world organises itself rather than recreating human reasoning – to evolve solutions that minimise vehicles needed, reduce journey distances, and efficiently load and route cargoes to reduce the carbon footprint of transport.

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Is hydrogen the fuel of the future?

E&T

The government introduced secondary legislation in 2019 requiring all sectors of the economy to achieve net zero by 2050. Professor Larkin says transporting fossil fuels accounts for about 15 per cent of maritime cargo, while ships have generally burnt “the fuel that nobody else wants” – dirty, heavy fuel oil.

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Coca-Cola in Mannheim: new returnable glass line from KHS optimizes highly complex sorting processes?

Dinesh Mishra

In 2018 and 2019 we invested around 50 million euros in two new filling lines. By 2030 greenhouse gas emissions in Europe are to drop by 30% compared to 2019. In 2021 a freight network was set up with DB Cargo that links 13 sites with one another, allowing 1.7 All set for net zero.