Google awarded patent for floating datacentres

CMA CGM has partnered with Google to integrate AI across its global operations, aiming to enhance decision-making, optimise workflows, and improve efficiency in vessel routes.

The shipping industry has set off on a voyage to digitalisation, but exactly what route it will take remains unclear.

Rapid growth in the number of web users, combined with the increasing computing demands of moving from simple search and email uses to high resolution video streaming and complex Web 2.0 applications, is beginning to tax the existing Internet infrastructure and will require vastly increased datacentre capacity and more efficient use of communications networks.