Aidrivers & Ashok Leyland announce autonomous truck

Partnership brings an autonomous vehicle specialist together with a robotic charging technology supplier.

Terminal operators continue to work with companies to develop and test autonomous terminal tractors. While most are proceeding cautiously, Hutchison Ports has much more ambitious targets.

Aidrivers will retrofit its AI-enabled autonomous technology to an automated STS crane at Pasir Panjang in Singapore.

With TOC Europe less than a week away, Aidrivers and Terberg Tractors Malaysia have announced the “successful completion” of a mixed traffic pilot at PTP in Malaysia.

The Port of Salalah has taken delivery of the first four cranes in a series of 10 super-post panamax STS cranes being manufactured by ZPMC. The remaining cranes will arrive at Oman’s largest container port in Q2 2024 with all units fully commissioned in the third quarter of the year.

As part of an Executive Order aimed at strengthening maritime cyber-security, the Biden Administration plans to invest over US$20B over the next five years in port infrastructure including funds for recreating the domestic port crane industry