The Port's 'Playstation': Remote control meets global trade

A quiet room with blackout curtains, large computer screens, control levers, ergonomic backrest chairs and even a built-in cup holder on the armrest. This sounds like a cool internet café, but no one's gaming here. These players are actually port crane operators and they're driving the future of shipping... remotely.

In the Lin-gang Special Area of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, they perform real-time remote loading and unloading operations at the terminal far away.  All of this is made possible by an intelligent management system adopted at Yangshan Phase IV automated terminal, the world's largest automated container terminal in terms of single-terminal capacity. Technology is bringing a new sense of "happiness" to port workers.