Austal has announced a strategic partnership with Spectainer, an industrial technology developer for shipping and logistics.
Spectainer has developed a fully patented collapsible container, COLLAPSECON, and associated, fully automated COLLAPSECON Operating Station (COS) that improves operational efficiencies, delivers savings, and reduces environmental impact across global logistics supply chains.
Austal CEO Paddy Gregg said the partnership is centered on optimizing COLLAPSECON and the Operating Station (COS) for mass manufacturing at Austal Vietnam’s shipyard in Vung tau.
According to him, the partnership includes developing production capability, capacity, and “the necessary material supply chain to support mass production of COLLAPSECON and COS”.
“Austal is very excited to be involved with Spectainer in a venture that has tremendous potential to positively impact global greenhouse emissions,” Mr Gregg continued.
“We are confident that our team of skilled engineers, in Vietnam and Australia, working closely with Spectainer will successfully bring this game-changing product to market.”
Spectainer’s Managing Director Nicholas Press stated: “We are thrilled to be partnering with Austal for the optimization and mass production of COLLAPSECON and COS.
“Austal is one of the best shipbuilders not just in Australia, but globally. Austal partnering with Spectainer for mass manufacturing will ensure that we can deliver COLLAPSECON and COS reliably, cost-effectively, and at scale, thus enabling us to achieve our goal of establishing COLLAPSECON® as the world’s first mass-produced collapsible container solution.”
COLLAPSECON containers are designed so that 4 collapsed containers may be transported in one container, thus delivering substantial economic savings, better operational productivity on land and sea, and reduced carbon emissions.
The two companies have entered the strategic partnership with the aim of developing a business model that can be formally established as a manufacturing supply contract within the next 6 months.
