Technical Papers

As the US inaugurates its 46th president and re-joins the Paris Climate Agreement, the status of climate change will climb back up the global agenda and reignite the need to drive down global carbon emissions.

In 2019, INFORM undertook the ambitious step of embracing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The UN SDGs challenge companies to replace profit maximisation with a multifactor success model that adds "people" and "planet" to the traditional "profit" success factor. We were challenged to assess how we were, or could, contribute to the 17 SDGs.

Processing greater cargo levels while simultaneously cutting emissions is one of the biggest challenges ports and terminals face today

Facing the South China Sea, Kuantan Port is one of the premier deepwater ports of the Malaysian Peninsula’s East Coast.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created many challenges for the international supply chain and not least for the global ports and terminals that have continued to handle the flow of traffic during these trying times.

The Coronavirus emerged in China in December A full lockdown in China followed in January 2020, with an immediate effect on trade volumes as production activities were halted and ports were forced to downsize their activities

There is no doubt that software as a service (SaaS) has disrupted the traditional on-premise license software model.

This article examines the benefits of fleet-level optimisation for automated container terminals, taking Kalmar's Fleet Management solution as an example

Ports of the world are crucial nodes in supply chain networks as they manage transshipments of goods

Scale increases in container vessel size are a well-documented and much debated topic. The search for economies of scale and the focus on cost control have pushed the container shipping industry towards the deployment of ever larger containerships

One of the most striking trends in the maritime industry in recent years has been the increasing size of container ships, the largest of which is approximately ten times bigger than they were a decade ago.