Smart Ships: Big Data will Change Shipping in the Near Future
Shipping usually reminds us of stormy seas, dockyards and rusty and large shipping containers. Most don’t consider it as a high-tech industry, but the reality is that, at this moment, it is having a data revolution like many other industries. Imagine a world where the shipping industry’s inanimate objects could talk. What would the ships of today convey us about the stress overweight containers kept on their hulls? How would they tell us about the strain they are put under …