Between issue one and 100 of the Port Technology International Journal, container terminals have gone from manual operations with papers and handheld radios as means of communication to fully integrated and automated operation where information exchange is digitalised pretty much everywhere in the terminal. We have also seen how everything has increased in size, speed and functionality. ABB has been the source of several innovations enabling these technological advancements. Automation of container handling equipment actually started with ship-to-shore (STS) cranes. In 1987 we introduced sway and path control, and the functionality has since then been refined and expanded with skew control, ship profiling, crane OCR, vehicle alignment/identification, automatic landing on vehicles and fully automated portal trollies.
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