Turkish port in first with remote-controlled cranes

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DP World Yarimca says it is the first port in the world to use remote-controlled, electric cranes in a bid to improve safety during operations.

The company says that installing the equipment is ’inching the industry ever more closely from a man-powered to a future brain-powered one’.

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