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APBA led a pilot scheme with Bizcargo.com and Port Community companies
Together with the Mitmynid start-up the founder of the Bizcargo.com platform and several Port Community members, APBA began a pilot scheme to enable Port of Algeciras Bay service providers to upload thei…
Algeciras Port participates as a panelist of The Real Value of Smart Data session at SDP19
The Algeciras Port Authority had the chance to participate in a panel discussion about the Real Value of Smart Data at the Smart Digital Ports of the Future (SDP19) hosted by Port Technology in Rotterdam. Th…
JOC Container Trade Europe Conference 2019
Our Port Authority sent a delegation to Hamburg (Germany), headed by Mr. Francisco De los Santos APBAs CIO all of who took an active role in the fifth edition of this conference in September. The event …
Maritime Silk Road Port International Cooperation Forum (Ningbo, China)
At the end of July last, the V Maritime Silk Road Port International Cooperation Forum was held in the city of Ningbo (Zhejiang Province, China). In 2019, this forum coincided with the Chinese Maritime Foru…
Prior Market Consultation: Predictive and prescriptive intelligence for the optimization of por…
On June 22, 2019, the preliminary market consultation regarding the innovation project Predictive and prescriptive intelligence for the optimization of port logistic operations at Algeciras Port was offici…
APBA ramps up its partnership with the London what3words Start-Up
APBA increased its level of cooperation with the what3words company, a start-up that was founded in 2013 and has developed a new global address system, having identified the fact that the worldwide address s…
Huawei Enterprise Day 2019
The Metropolitan Wanda Stadium home to Atletico de Madrid set the stage for the latest edition of Huaweis Enterprise Day, one of the reddest tech calendar events of the year and focused on the corporate…
First Port of Algeciras Bay Open Innovation Day
The Port of Algeciras Bay Authority together with the Innovation Office (IDOM) hosted our first Open Innovation Day in the Millan Picazo Auditorium during last May. The conference was focused on Innovat…
Our involvement in the 5G Technology pilot schemes launched by Red.es
Red.es is a public agency under the umbrella of the Department of Digital Progress in the Ministry for Economic Affairs. At the end of 2018, the agency launched a public tender for businesses to identify, d…
1st Edition of the Algeciras BrainPort Award for Best Masters Degree Dissertation
APBA and the Algeciras Technological Campus Foundation (FCTA) presented the first Algeciras BrainPort Awards for port innovation at a ceremony held at FCTAs RD&I Building in Algeciras in April last, t…
Algeciras Port looks for new solutions and ideas to 4 open innovation challenges
The Algeciras Port Authority have launched the second edition of the Innovation Competition Travesía de la Innovación. This new edition, sponsored by the APBA, is addressed to all those employees of Algeci…
III Smart Ports Workshop: Plunge into Ports 4.0
Represented by our CIO, Mr. Francisco de los Santos, our port took an active lead at the III Edition of the Smart Ports Workshop: Plunge into Ports 4.0. The workshop was held at Sngulars headquarters in Mad…
Membership of the International Port Community Systems Association (IPCSA)
Representing APBA, Ms. Maria Roman and Mr. Paco Saucedo received our IPCSA membership plaque form Hans Rook the Associations Chairman at a ceremony that took place on the 12th February last within the W…
Alliance with TradeLens: the Blockchain platform driven by IBM and Maersk
At the turn of the year, APBA underwrote a partnership agreement with IBM to take part in TradeLens: an open and impartial platform based on a blockchain technology solution that had been the brainchild …
Algeciras Port participates in the SPSC18 Conference organized by Port Technology International…
The Algeciras Port Authority, represented by Dr. Francisco de los Santos, had the honor to present in Rotterdam, in front of the shipping industry leaders, the main pillars of the digital transformation and …
Algeciras Port shares its technology and digitization projects in the JOC Container Trade Europ…
The 2018 JOC Container Trade Europe Conference held in Hamburg was focused on analysing major trends in container shipping supply, demand and capacity, and exploring and illustrating strategic and innovative…
APBA implements what3words to improve mobility and location services in Algeciras Port
The Algeciras Bay Port Authority (APBA) is collaborating with what3words, the location technology company that makes it easy to talk about location. Having identified that traditional addresses do not tend t…
APBA and GOFIMA Research Group develop an environmental management tool for port waters
Algeciras Port Authority, together with the Physical Oceanography Group of the University of Malaga (GOFIMA), have developed a tool to support environmental management in the Port of Algeciras. The tool anal…
Algeciras Port Authority and Technology Campus launch the “Algeciras BrainPort” Inn…
The Algeciras Port Authority (APBA) and Algeciras Technology Campus Foundation (FCTA) open the registration period for the port innovation awards “Algeciras BrainPort”. The first edition initiati…
The Port of Algeciras shares its predictions and real-time weather information through a mobile…
The Environmental Control Panel (ECP) mobile app is now available for the Ports of Algeciras and Tarifa, complementing the existing website. Both applications allow access to the measurement stations real-t…
The Competitive Dialogue for the development of a predictive system for vessel-infrastructure o…
On March 5, 2018, the Competitive Dialogue procedure started, according to the announcement of the tender and the publication of the Descriptive Document of the innovation project “Advanced and predict…
