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Tracking packages with stationary bar code reader in a warehouse sorting operation. Package tracking or package logging is the process of localizing shipping containers, mail and parcel post at different points of time during sorting, warehousing, and package delivery to verify their provenance and to predict and aid delivery.
On 30 November 2020, the container ship ONE Apus lost an estimated 1816 containers overboard during severe weather while traveling from Yantian in China to Long Beach, California, USA. Among these were 64 containers of dangerous goods. Removing collapsed containers from the deck took 3 months after the ship docked in Kobe, Japan. [17]
The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles together account for approximately 40% of the shipping containers entering the United States. [7] More than three-quarters of the containers leaving Los Angeles were empty in July 2021 whereas about two-thirds of the containers leaving U.S. ports are typically filled with exports.
International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) (PSE: ICT) is a global port management company headquartered in Manila, Philippines. Established in 1916, ICTSI is the Philippines' largest multinational and transnational company, having established operations in both developed and emerging market economies in Asia Pacific, the Americas, and Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
An upgraded vessel tracking system, which can track 4,000 moving vessels plus 1,000 stationary targets in real time, has been in operation since early 2002. It provides the latest technology such as AIS , ECDIS , CCTV , new VHF-direction finders and modern communications systems to further improve navigation safety and operation efficiency.
[5] [6] The PANYNJ currently contracts CMA CGM to operate a container terminal on the site. [7] [8] The facility is 187 acres (76 ha) in size, but there have been plans for expansion with the acquisition in 2001 of the adjacent 124-acre (50 ha) Port Ivory, a former shipping port operated by Procter & Gamble. [9]
The Kochi International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT), locally known as the Vallarpadam Terminal, is the first transshipment terminal in India and the first container terminal to operate in a SEZ. [1] [2] Being constructed in three stages, the first phase of the terminal was commissioned on 11 February 2011. [3]
One contributor to the accident could be parametric roll resonance, [7] a hazard known to affect container ships. [8] The ONE Apus incident was the largest loss of containers in transport since the MOL Comfort sank in 2013. The cargo loss cost is estimated at $90 million. [9] The ship was delayed for approximately three months.