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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…
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 …
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…
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 spearh…
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 …
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 marit…
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 en…
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…
A New Green Deal Port Master Plan. The Transformation of European Ports.
The environmental impacts of port activities and infrastructure are substantial, wide-reaching and multidimensional. They include polluting emissions, soil and water contamination, noise and vibration, …
Shipping is tough on the climate and hard to clean up. These innovations can help cut emissions…
Shipping is the cheapest way to move raw materials and bulk goods. That has given it both an enormous economic impact and a large carbon footprint. The industry emits roughly 1 billion metric tons …
From digital transformation to open innovation at Port of Algeciras Bay
Ports, considered strategic and essential logistics Hubs for international value chains, are currently subject to a series of external forces of changes in terms of geopolitics, economics, society, the envir…
How Intelligence is Powering Supply Chain’s Next Wave
Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies are behind a host of emerging applications, especially for manufacturing demand planning and warehouse applications. Like most everything in 2020, gl…
3 ways companies can take more ambitious action to achieve net zero
By taking more ambitious climate action, corporations can both help the planet and spur innovation. As stated in the report Climate Change 2021 published by the IPCC, the human activity is changing…
Machine Learning in Maritime Logistics
Future-oriented maritime services will increasingly rely on the intelligent use of data from maritime supply chains, transport markets as well as fleet management and port operations. The comprehensive avail…
Succeeding in the AI supply-chain revolution
In recent years, supply chains have become substantially more challenging to manage. Longer and increasingly interlinked physical flows reflect the rising complexity of product portfolios. Market volati…
PortXchange: Lessons learned and the journey ahead
PortXchange provides digital solutions to optimise operations and reduce emissions from the shipping industry. After success in Rotterdam, PortXchange was launched in the ports of Felixstowe, Moerdijk, Algec…
Port Call Optimisation: A Port Authority’s Point of View
The Algeciras Port Authority considers that Port authorities should embrace technology and strive to become ecosystem orchestrators, fostering cooperation, improving efficiencies and boosting sustainability …
Decision Democratisation using Modern Data Analytics
Organisations digitisation has moved forward five years in just the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the issues many organisations have faced was inertia creeping into their decision-making…
Accuracy and timeliness: Two critical measures that define the quality of data in logistics
Even though nowadays we find great progress and improvements in terms of data-sharing and in the development of platforms that connect different systems and stakeholders, two fundamental questions, which are…
Industry 4.0 in the port and maritime industry
The port and maritime industry has evolved and from the 2010s have entered into a fifth stage of evolution characterized by their digital transformation and alignment with Industry 4.0 practices. Co-operatio…
Decarbonising Shipping: All Hands on Deck
Shipping has a dual challenge. It must meet the demand of the worlds growing population, with more ships and more voyages, while radically reducing its emissions. Sustainable challenges have been addressed …
