Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere and is being utilized on many fronts, producing good results from narrow scopes. Whilst image recognition is going beyond traditional OCR systems and video analytics are being used to measure truck queues, the broader introduction of AI in ports and terminals to make them more efficient, safer and sustainable is […]
The Port Authority of the Algeciras Bay and WISeKey join forces to develop a pioneering project of digital transformation.
The Port Authority of the Algeciras Bay has signed and agreement with WISeKey International Holding Ltd. (“WISeKey”), a leader in cybersecurity, digital identity, and Internet of Things (IoT), integrating it into the Digital Transformation Consortium of the container and port logistics sector. This step follows the success of the agreement with DP World in Dubai, […]
Awake.AI
Awake.AI is a Finnish start-up, founded in 2018 in Turku, with the aim to create a software platform for port digitalization and maritime and autonomous transport, and whose solutions focus on developing customized AI/ML models to optimize cargo flow through ports, reducing waiting times and emissions. The start-up offers a holistic software platform for both […]
Port OCR Disruption
Summary: The Algeciras Bay Port Authority (APBA) actively participated in the Port OCR Disruption project, developed by the start-up AllRead MLT and focused on changing the paradigm of optical character recognition (OCR) in ports, enabling the ubiquity of traceability in port facilities by removing the financial and technological barriers to its adoption. The project, which […]
A digitalization journey for complex problem solving in dynamic environments to achieve ill-defined goals
Container terminals, complex and challenge-led ecosystems on vast infrastructures, intricately coordinate, among a yet to be orchestrated symphony of diverse stakeholders, to provide high added-value and differentiated logistics services. Achieving optimal operational efficiency, safety, sustainability, reliability, and profitability within this dynamic environment requires a delicate balance. For that reason, global industry groups are focused on […]
AI-driven computer vision has become an industry-shaping technology for the logistics’ sector
The recent DHL Trend Report has brought a quite revealing input: computer vision or visual Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is becoming widely esteemed in the logistics sector due to its multiple applications and diverse benefits. Even anticipating that this technology within the forthcoming five years, it will seamlessly integrate into the fundamental facets of standard […]
The APBA celebrates the launch of the 2nd edition of its initatiave aimed at Training Centers within the framework of its Algeciras Port Digital Academy program
The Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras (APBA) held, last Thursday, November 30th, the launching ceremony of the second edition of its initiative addressed to Training Centers, adding new students and expanding the offer of companies in which they will be able to complement their training. Thus begins, within the school year 2023-2024, the […]
The Port of Algeciras presents its use cases in Artificial Intelligence at the 1st AI Congress of Andalusia held in Granada
The Algeciras Port Authority (APBA) participated, last November 22 and 23, in the 1st Congress of Artificial Intelligence of Andalusia, organized by the Junta de Andalucía, through the Digital Agency of Andalusia (ADA, by its acronym in Spanish) and held at the Palacio de Congresos de Granada.The Minister of the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and […]
The Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras hosts an ICEX Workshop on technological solutions for integrated value chains
The Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras (APBA) held last Wednesday, November 15, together with ICEX, the conference entitled “Technological Solutions for Integrated Value Chains“. On this occasion, the Millán Picazo Auditorium was the stage where, from the point of view of innovation and technology, it was discussed how supply chains can increase their […]
Simulation of the OPE Process
The management of the Operation Crossing the Strait of Gibraltar (OPE) is a challenge for the Port Authority of the Algeciras Bay every year. In addition to the existing uncertainty about the exact flow of people and vehicles arriving at the port, there are also the logical deviations from the theoretical planning of the preset […]
Underwater noise monitoring system and cetacean tracking system
Summary: Ports are essential allies for the development and growth of the Blue Economy as they are the physical interface where all industries and sectors related to the oceans, seas and coasts can converge, both those based in the marine environment (maritime transport, fishing, energy generation) and those based on land (ports, shipyards, aquaculture on […]
Waypoint Program: SafetyTech start-up accelerator programme
Waypoint is Safetytech Accelerator’s open innovation initiative to accelerate the entry of leading technology companies into the maritime sector. It is a not-for-profit organisation created by Lloyd’s Register and the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, and is the first technology accelerator entirely dedicated to safety and risk in industrial sectors, whose mission is to make the world […]
Just in Time Bunkering Operations: AI model for bunkering operations optimization.
Summary: At present, bunkering operations in ports are not exempt from certain congestion problems, which can lead, in some cases, to delays in the start of these services to the vessel. Similarly, factors such as the lack of global visibility, coordination and real-time operational awareness of these operations could be improved. This would result in […]
Sinay
Sinay is a French start-up founded in 2008 by experts in marine environment and biodiversity, specialized in the design of artificial intelligence digital solutions for the analysis, monitoring and prediction of complex maritime data in the fields of sustainability and maritime transport. Its multifunctional platform in the cloud “Sinay Hub”, based on advanced data analytics, […]
NextPort
NextPort is a Spanish start-up, founded in 2022 in Algeciras as a technology and innovation brand of the US company Moffat&Nichol, a leading global organization in the planning and design of port facilities. NextPort brings a practical R&D&I approach to introduce artificial intelligence in ports and terminals: connecting processes, systems, data and people for an […]
Pier71 Smart Port Challenge: Port of Singapore’s annual innovation competition
Smart Port Challenge is an annual innovation competition that seeks the best ideas and solutions from technology start-ups to address innovation challenges or opportunities posed by maritime companies in Singapore, one of the world’s leading port hubs. Launched in 2017 by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), Smart Port Challenge became the flagship […]
Six proposals supported by the Port of Algeciras are selected in the modality of pre-commercial projects of the 2nd call of the Ports 4.0 Fund
On October 2, the Public Body Puertos del Estado approved, through the Distribution Committee of the Interport Compensation Fund, the provisional resolution for the modality of pre-commercial projects, in accordance with the 2nd Call of the Ports 4.0 Fund. On this occasion, the public body has endowed this category of projects with a total of […]
PortXL: start-up acceleration programme
PortXL, a B2B maritime accelerator, is a global entrepreneurship hub for start-ups and scale-ups in the logistics, shipping, green energy and process industry sectors, whose mission is to create a network effect by connecting globally, around innovation, each port and the organisations operating within each port cluster to foster scouting, matchmaking and acceleration. Its Rotterdam […]
36 entities make up the Innovation Committee of the Port of Algeciras
The Innovation Committee of the Port of Algeciras has held in the last days the first of its quarterly meetings. In the course of the same Jesus Medina, Chief Innovation & Information Officer of the Algeciras Bay Port Authority (APBA), has assumed the Presidency of the Committee for the next two years. The aim of […]
The APBA participates in the I Innovation and Digital Transformation Fair organised by the Chamber of Commerce of the Campo de Gibraltar
The Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras (APBA) was present, last Wednesday, September 20th, in the I Innovation and Digital Transformation Fair, framed in the project “Campo de Gibraltar in digital 2023”; and which contemplates a series of actions aimed at promoting innovation and business digitalization, with the objective of achieving an improvement in […]
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 […]
