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摘要

For A container industry reliant on personal relationships and witnessing a slow shift from paper-based processes, the next big challenge is the "consumerisation of technology". In other words, the digital communication choices in your personal life eventually influence how you want to work in your job. In a digital world where the iPacl, mobile phone, text and email are the currency of communication, shippers will expect the same accessibility for their container bookings and supply chain data. French carrier CMA CGM, for example, is investing in an information system "at the forefront of innovation" to be developed with business software specialist SAP. It proclaimed, rather grandly, that the system wilt enable the group to develop the "first system totally dedicated to container shipping".