Nearly a quarter of the city of Amsterdam is covered by water, with more than a hundred kilometers of canal winding their way through the municipality. No wonder then, that when the city looks to the future of transportation, it's not interested in the self-driving cars currently being tested in American cities, but in self-driving boats instead. Today, the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) announced a new, five-year research initiative to explore the possible functions of these floating robot vehicles.
World's biggest automated cargo wharf, the fourth phase of the Yangshan deep-water port started operation on Sunday.
The core technology of the robotic port was developed independently by China.
The forth phrase of Yangshan port takes up an area of 2.23 million square meters, whose coastline stretches as long as 2,350 meters. It consists of two 70,000 dead-weight tonnage (DWT) berths and five 50,000 DWT berths.