BROWSING: smart ports

Liberty Global is working with Nokia to open up its Belgian subsidiary’s public 5G network to developers to deliver new enterprise applications for the Port of Antwerp. Telenet, owned by Liberty Global, is offering application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) to...

The Port of Virginia in the US expects to have autonomous trucks running on a private 5G network at its site from early next year (2024). The port has a new private 5G network from Verizon Business, operating in high-band millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum,...

The Port of Tyne views its private 5G network as a key enabler of a broad suite of smart port use cases The Port of Tyne in the United Kingdom is among numerous similar facilities around the world that are investing in sweeping digital transformation initiatives...

The Port of Tyne has deployed a private 4G and 5G network across its southern cargo terminal and industrial site in South Shields in the northeast of England. The project has been managed by UK operator BT, which has provided localised tranches of its...

Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited (KFTL) has selected Nokia to deploy a private LTE/5G network at its container terminal in Kingston, Jamaica, in the Caribbean. The deployment has been handled by US-based system integrator EGC International. KFTL is taking both Nokia’s Digital Automation Cloud private...

Orange is to design and build a private 5G network at the Aqaba container terminal in Jordan, handling shipping cargo for the Levant region in the Eastern Mediterranean. It will be the first private 5G network in the country, said Orange, and the operator’s...

Finnish vendor Nokia and Colombian operator Claro have deployed a private LTE network at Sociedad Portuaria Puerto Bahía in Cartagena, billed as the “most modern” multipurpose maritime port in Colombia. The solution includes Nokia’s Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private networking solution, plus its MX...

Huawei explained that the automation and intelligent upgrade of ports seek to achieve the optimal efficiency of the entire port system that includes machines, yards, vehicles, ships and goods Huawei and the Tianjin Port Group (TPG) have recently announced a cooperative project with the aim...

BT outlines its approach to the private 5G market Private 5G networks are widely viewed as the next big revenue driver for operators as enterprises increasingly understand the value of 5G-enabled solutions. Within BT, these capabilities reside in the Division X part of the organization...

The private networks deployed at this Swedish port currently rely on 4G LTE technology A cellular private network for Hutchison Ports Stockholm has enabled a high level of automation at the facility, including the operation of automated straddle carriers, Graham Wilde, head of 5G business...

Nokia is to deploy a private LTE network at the Port of San Antonio in Chile, the country’s main maritime port, handling almost 50 percent of the country’s import and export trade. The Finnish vendor was selected by the port operator, San Antonio Terminal...

Deutsche Telekom said that the semi-automation with the help of 5G technology should increase the capacity of the cranes   German carrier Deutsche Telekom announced the start of the construction of a 5G field test at the port of Duisburg. The telco explained that the initiative stipulates...

AT&T in Mexico has installed a private LTE network from Finnish vendor Nokia at the APM Terminals port in Puerto Progreso, in the Yucatán in Mexico. The pair are billing the new LTE installation as “industrial grade”. It uses Nokia’s Digital Automaton Cloud (DAC)...

Ericsson noted that a condition monitoring solution requires a network that can manage high connection density and transfer data in real time with extremely high reliability   Ericsson said it has identified condition monitoring of critical assets as one of the leading use cases driving the...

This started, provisionally, as a roundup of five key private 5G deployments in five key private 5G industries in five key private 5G markets, spurred by a couple of recent announcements we missed originally, by Spanish construction firm Ferrovial at the Silvertown Tunnel project...

Telefónica is working with La Marina de València, the maritime district in the southeastern port city of Valencia in Spain, to ‘digitise’ electricity and water supply for boats, including with various IoT, 5G, cloud computing, analytics and blockchain solutions, it has said. The firm’s...

  UK carrier BT and Associated British Ports (ABP) said they are currently trialing the next generation of Internet of Things (IoT) and sensor technology to speed up the movement and processing of cargo goods and digitize the Port of Ipswich’s logistics and operations processes. In...

Private cellular provider Geoverse is to provide an LTE network in the CBRS band for Oakland Maritime Support Services (OMSS) at the Port of Oakland in the US. The new LTE deployment will enable various management applications for ‘intermodal’ transportation in the container yard...

Edzcom and Nokia are to build a private standalone (SA) 5G network for fellow Finnish firm Konecranes at the company’s factory in the municipality of Hyvinkää about 50 kilometres north of Helsinki. Konecranes manufacturers and services cranes and lifting equipment. The company’s Hyvinkää facility is...

Finnish industrial networking specialist Edzcom has deployed private 5G networks at shipping terminals in Mussalo and Hietanen in Kotka for Steveco, Finland’s largest port operator. Italy-based Athonet has provided the core network and connectivity platform. The two sites in Kotka, on Finland’s southern coast, are...

Telefónica is to deploy a 5G network for Netherlands-based port operating company APM Terminals at the Port of Barcelona. The network, in a pilot phase, will be used to connect cranes, vehicles, and people in the port area, to manage traffic and improve worker...

Shipping ports can make money back on key private 5G-based automation systems in less than two years, reckons Ericsson, and make valuable gains (178-percent returns) within five. The Swedish vendor has worked with Germany-based industrial IoT provider ifm electronic, along with commission management consultancy Arthur...

Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom are bundling private cellular and edge computing into an integrated ‘campus’ networking package for enterprises globally. The pair are offering the same in Germany, already; their new deal extends to a global market. Ericsson is providing the LTE and 5G...

The UK government has announced a further £28.3 million in joint public-private funding to support nine new 5G testbeds, as part of its £200 million campaign to leverage 5G to energise the UK industrial sector, and as it seeks to open up UK telecoms...