LASE & Ouster team up

New technology offers an alternative to GPS/GNSS and transponders to support container handling equipment automation and autonomous vehicles operating in terminals.

LASE has received an important safety certification for an automation system that allows an automated yard crane to transfer a container to a road truck with the driver in the cab.

As far as can be determined, the design of both the Key Bridge and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Baltimore has never been identified as an issue.

Ports in earthquake zones need to consider whether their cranes should have better protection than most have today.

Last year was a bumper one for the production of tank containers, but now an oversupply looms.

The Maritime Union of Australia says personnel cages should not be used with ships cranes in bulk and general stevedoring options except in emergency situations.