Container terminal planning will increasingly take advantage of modern tracking techniques to achieve smarter and more efficient container stacking and onward distribution. Individualised container data will allow terminals to preplan the distribution of import containers. Currently most terminal operators are in ignorance about the contents and destination of the import containers they are about to handle, said Jan Egbertsen, who is in charge of strategic development at the Port of Amsterdam. "Terminal operators still do not know what onward mode import containers will be using and therefore cannot stack boxes to match the onward mode access, so a lot of containers still need excess handling on the land side," he told P&H.
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