BISON in action at the 35th America's Cup

BISON, the New Zealand tech company, has just shipped a second set of its pioneering container scales to Bermuda, this time to the America's Cup Event Authority (ACEA).

The ACEA order follows on from that of Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ), which earlier adopted BISON technology to weigh over 60 container loads of tools and equipment needed to support their winning America's Cup campaign.

The 35th America's Cup spectacle was accompanied by a serious logistics operation, as the racing syndicates and ACEA moved all the necessary equipment in and out of Bermuda for the event. With limited infrastructure on the island, BISON's portable container scales have proven to be an ideal tool for check weighing containers, ensuring containers stay under road and bridge weight limits, and giving the shipper a verified container weight for vessel loading.

"We're delighted to be supporting Team New Zealand as an official supplier," says BISON CEO Greg Fahey. "And it was a bonus to have the ACEA call on us ... to ask for a portable container weighing solution of their own."

The British and French syndicates have indicated they may also use the ACEA's set of BISON scales to weigh their containers as they prepare to depart from Bermuda.

Established in New Zealand in 2014, BISON Group offers a unique range of container weighing and handling solutions to the shipping industry, in use in over 25 countries.