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…

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 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…

The Algeciras Port Authority considers that Port authorities should embrace technology and strive to become ecosystem orchestrators, fostering cooperation, improving efficiencies and boosting sustainability …

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…

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…

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…

Shipping has a dual challenge. It must meet the demand of the world’s growing population, with more ships and more voyages, while radically reducing its emissions. Sustainable challenges have been addressed …

Traditionally, ports have been crucial nodes in the world’s international supply chains. As those supply chains have become increasingly fast, flexible and responsive, the role of ports has been transformed.…

According to experts, it is time to focus on green hydrogen, i.e. hydrogen produced from renewable sources and more specifically by electrolysis, converting water into hydrogen and oxygen molecules using ren…

Even before the current COVID-19 crisis, wireless communication technology was making headlines. Much of the recent interest has focused on 5G mobile data networks that are being rolled out in many countries…

Ports are taking significant strides with digital transformation and starting to declare themselves as smart. Processes are digitalized, communities within the port are connected, and impressive gains in o…

PCL is a new concept, which largely refers to the transformation of the port into a space of supply chain innovation and collaboration. To meet current challenges, and prepare for future ones, ports and…

Global emergencies such as the recent coronavirus outbreak and its massive impact on the economy show the need to immediately rethink existing supply chain thinking. The popular and established strategies wo…

Summary: Culture hacking takes change off the horizon and inserts it into employees’ day-to-day life in a visceral, immediate, low-effort way. CIOs can follow a six-step process to kick off or reignite chang…

Nowadays, the Shipping Industry follows two main courses of action. Dealing with competitiveness and efficiency in operations while pursuing environmental goals, driven mainly by public attention and IMO’s w…

The challenge is this: as standards have developed, standards organizations have diverged and even those using the standards have adapted their standards of choice to meet their own needs. The result is, of …

With improved communication technology comes improved maritime communication. 5G is expected to facilitate the roll-out of smart drones that can return real-time monitoring of ships entering and leaving port…

The ELETA’s project, agreed in the 2016 TEN-T Days in Rotterdam to boost international rail freight, has concluded that more accurate ETA data of freight trains are possible by means of algorithms. Once quan…

In the past few years, the world’s leading ports have been investing in their digital ecosystems, in particular in creating Port Community Systems (PCS) to enhance their connectivity and boosting the efficie…

Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest port by cargo tonnage, is committed to becoming the first digital port by 2030, and the smartest port in the world. Part of that journey is their digital transformation in…