El Centro de Innovación Digital del Puerto de Algeciras como evolución natural de su modelo portuario de innovación
El sector portuario y del transporte marítimo se encuentran inmersos en un dinámico e incierto escenario marcado por una serie de desafíos y retos sin precedentes. En primer lugar, el posicionamiento de los puertos como nodos logísticos intermodales, en el epicentro de las cadenas logísticas globales, determina el nuevo rol al que están abocados estos […]
Aplicación práctica del gemelo digital y la IA en el Puerto de Algeciras – Un piloto para optimizar las operaciones de ferries
La Inteligencia Artificial (IA) está en todas partes y se está utilizando en muchos frentes, produciendo buenos resultados desde ámbitos reducidos. Mientras que el reconocimiento de imágenes va más allá de los sistemas OCR tradicionales y el análisis de vídeo se utiliza para medir las colas de camiones, la introducción más amplia de la IA […]
Un viaje hacia la digitalización para resolver problemas complejos en entornos dinámicos y alcanzar objetivos mal definidos
Las terminales de contenedores, ecosistemas complejos y llenos de retos sobre vastas infraestructuras, se coordinan intrincadamente, entre una sinfonía aún por orquestar de diversas agentes logístico-portuarios, para prestar servicios logísticos de alto valor añadido y diferenciales. Lograr la ansiada eficiencia operativa, seguridad, sostenibilidad, fiabilidad y óptima rentabilidad en este entorno dinámico requiere un delicado equilibrio. […]
La visión por computador, basada en IA, se ha convertido en una tecnología determinante para el sector logístico
El reciente Informe de Tendencias de DHL ha aportado una información bastante reveladora: la tecnología de visión por computador o Inteligencia Artificial (IA) visual está siendo muy apreciada en el sector logístico debido a sus múltiples aplicaciones y diversos beneficios. Incluso se prevé que en los próximos cinco años esta tecnología se integre a la […]
Píldora de Innovación – Herramientas para fomentar la creatividad
Estamos profundamente equivocados si pensamos que la innovación disruptiva y la creatividad, comúnmente asociadas a grandes líderes empresariales, es únicamente un aspecto genético o simplemente una habilidad cognitiva. Esta es una de las conclusiones que arroja el libro titulado “El ADN del Innovador”, tras una investigación de más de 8 años a unos 500 líderes […]
Virtual Watch Tower – capturing value in supply chain data sharing
Nowadays, for the logistics’ and maritime industry is way too evident the power underlying data sharing and the comprehensive innovative opportunities that could be built upon it. Past efforts, i.e. TradeLens, even though fall to achieve platform’s true objective, leaving aside technological-driven purpose and data quality governance, set the pathway towards an unprecedent collaborative scheme […]
Supply Chains building a Digital Twin of the customer
One of Gartner’s latests Survey highlights the raising trend that the Digital Twin of the Customer (DToC) is gaining over Chief Supply Chain Officer’s (CSCO) interests’ and digital strategies’. This rather new all-encompassing technology has come to enlighten the customer experience by unveiling a dynamic, virtual mirror representation of a customer, understood as profile characterizations […]
Finding the right role in green corridors
Green corridors are specific trade routes between major port hubs that prioritize and demonstrate zero-emission solutions in shipping, aiming to advance decarbonization efforts. The concept envisions collaboration among stakeholders to coordinate green fuel infrastructure and vessels, creating an enabling ecosystem through targeted regulations, financial incentives, and safety measures. These initiatives should bear in mind the […]
Our fragmented supply chains need a language to link local trusted networks
Achieving data collaboration in a fragmented supply chain has proven to be challenging, despite the need for predictability in goods delivery. While centralized platform solutions have limitations, decentralized methods of data collaboration are promising but still in development. It is considered that true progress will come from sharing operational planning data among stakeholders for actionable […]
Lago Marítimo: el nuevo distrito de innovación y de interacción puerto-ciudad de Algeciras
La cultura germinada o inspirada en las ciudades portuarias, además de expresarse a través de sus diferentes modalidades como la música, las artes plásticas, la tecnología, así como de otros ámbitos de la creatividad humana, necesita expresarse en la arquitectura y el urbanismo. En Europa, casi el 40% de la población vive en ciudades de […]
How to transform your shipping company
The shipping industry has enjoyed a couple of profitable years, but today it must deal with a rapidly changing environment full of uncertainties, due mainly to threats like recession, geopolitical volatility, crew shortages, escalating operating costs, fluctuating cargo demand and uncertainty over the decarbonization roadmap of the sector. Furthermore, the industry is not following at […]
Leading the Future Supply Chain
Current supply chain scenario has moved from a state where disruptions were considered the trend and focus was made even at top-management level, to a lowered disruptive situation in which investments will still be needed to shape organizations’ competitive advantage by developing the supply chain of the future; through a strategical transformation based on commercial […]
ESPO Environmental Report 2022
Sustainability and environmental efforts within the maritime sector mark the set agenda in the years to come. Nevertheless, these are no meaningless or recent trends, despite the fact that current objectives forces the industry to a major change. And this year 25-year anniversary of EcoPorts, ESPO’s main environmental initiative of the European port sector, proves […]
The mindset shift towards innovation
The International Association of Harbour and Ports (IAPH) has been working the past years on closing the gap of port competitiveness in terms of both physical and digital infrastructure, between the various stages that can be found worldwide overt port’s development. And therefore, considering innovation as a transversal key for business improvement. It is commonly […]
Maximizing the value creation from a 3 digital layer platform approach at Algeciras Port
In the face of an increasingly similar service offering among competitors in the industry, following the widespread ‘commoditisation myth’; ports are forced to provide their customers with more efficient and innovative services, mainly based on the creation of added value. The context of the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea are clear examples of […]
Automation and the path to sustainability
Automation benefits, such as efficiency, safety, agility and scalability, are commonly acknowledged within the ports and terminals sector, specially with automated terminals in Rotterdam or Antwerp as spearheads. Nevertheless, there are other benefits not so commonly identified. Sustainability, inclusivity, accessibility, skills enhancement and workplace attraction can also be achieved when deploying automation. Regarding labor force, […]
Taking the pulse of shifting supply chains
Current supply chain disruptions, since Covid-19 pandemic, have been adding pressure to the sector, which has been forced to tackle disturbances, manage risk mitigation and increase resilience. Efforts seem to prove the way in the past two years, based mainly on bigger buffers and safety stocks, but taking into consideration dual sourcing and regionalization or […]
Artificial Intelligence in Maritime – a learning curve
Today, AI is used widely in many consumer and business sectors, and industrial sectors such as maritime are now showing significant growth in demand for AI systems. In the maritime industry the adoption of AI has been growing gradually for a number of years and has recently exploded. In 2022 the maritime industry is forecast […]
What are the Four Types of Environmental Monitoring?
Environmental monitoring is composed of tools and techniques that identify, analyze, and establish parameters for environmental conditions to quantifiably assess the impacts from various activities on the environment. It is based on different test and assessment techniques which provide key information about the environment and possible risk levels. Companies and organizations must show that they […]
Increasing Container Dwell. Addressing the challenge of high yard utilisation.
As of mid-December 2021, there were some 101 ships waiting for berth space at the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach. What’s more, the congestion being experienced on the US East Coast isn’t isolated to this region. Ports around the world are reporting strong congestion issues throughout the last months with no end in […]
Optimización de escalas de buques portacontenedores a través de la digitalización de procesos y la colaboración activa entre agentes portuarios
El transporte de mercancías por vía marítima es un proceso de negocio complejo en el que resulta imprescindible la coordinación entre los diversos actores participantes. La sincronización del tráfico marítimo, la toma de decisiones en común, la visión completa (y no sesgada) del proceso gracias al intercambio de información estándar entre sistemas informáticos de diferentes […]