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PORT AUTOMATION the system is also worth a look. That’s because smaller ports ships, a dozen variables come into play as those megaships and terminals that lack the wherewithal to staff an in-house come and go. Leveraging the Navis N4 Terminal Operating technical crew can also depend on Kalmar to provide a range System to organize an adequate and properly deployed chassis of project services required to deploy and support the solu- pool and other previously stovepiped data into one smoothly tion. Kalmar provided professional services to support VICT running operation will be an attractive reason by itself for ter- through the testing for after-hours, variations to the scope, minal operators to make a move towards the future.

training on-the-job, productivity as well as optimization of the In North America – and on the U.S. West Coast in particular system. Beyond this, Kalmar Services furnished VICT with – the removal of still more labor from the waterfront will pay preventive maintenance and service of the equipment. dividends in not only a safer, less expensive and more effcient

Looking still further ahead and afeld, other terminal opera- operation, but also one that is less exposed to work stoppages tors and ports will be watching the VICT case study closely for and slowdowns that have plagued the intermodal supply chain clues about what they can also do to add effciencies to their here for decades. Terminal operators and shippers alike have been own operations. For example, and as U.S. and North Ameri- looking for that kind of integrated solution for a long time. Look- can ports struggle to cope with the reality of 20,000 TEU box- ing for the container handling solution of the future? It’s here now. www.maritimelogisticsprofessional.com 49

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