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Re:Two containers with same number detected in Chittagong port by intrasight on Friday July 22, 2022 @10:35PM (#32199705)
Computers with business logic. It can't be the same one if it travels faster than is possible. And anyway, if they were being tracked ...
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Re:Two containers with same number detected in Chittagong port by fuzzfactor on Monday July 25, 2022 @12:01AM (#32220361)
Suppose you were the guy who goes around numbering containers to begin with.

What are you going to use, a laptop or something?

If it ran out of power without completing its process, upon reboot it might very well assign the same number to the next container.

Even without a computer, you could have the day shift actually paint the number on the first container, but fail to finish the paperwork or it could get lost.

Then the night shift comes along and uses the same number on the next container.

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Re:Two containers with same number detected in Chittagong port by LeChuck on Saturday July 23, 2022 @12:33AM (#32200400)
The terminal doesn't always know the destination. Why would it? And anyway, intended destinations can change.
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