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 World Maritime Week international conference that was being held in Bilbao.
Joining IPCSA was a key factor in the development of Teleport 2.0 our new Port Community System (PCS) for our organisation. We are going to aim to play an active role in several of the associations task forces: in particular, much interest has been shown in PCSs and e-commerce integration, and in IPCSA initiatives in Blockchain Technology; all to help us increase our ports competitivity by speeding up end-to-end cargo flows.
The IPCSA was established in 2011 by its six founding members (SOGET, MCP, Portic, Portbase, DBH and Dakosy) and has its headquarters in Europe. It is an association whose mission statement is to drive e-logistics as a key element for developing maritime and port-logistics sectors worldwide.
The fact that the worlds main PCS operators are associated and work together with internationally-renowned organisations such as IMO, the UN or the WCO enables it to create synergies and promote the Single Window concept for international trade.
PCSs play a key role in data-sharing and simplifying bureaucratic processes by enabling millions of messages to be exchanged every week.
The IPCSA now has a membership of forty ports all over the world, including those of Hamburg, Antwerp, Los Angeles, Trieste, Southampton, Valencia, Tarragona and Israel; and many other PCS operators as well.
At APBA, we believe that PCSs are strategic tools for any self-respecting port logistics community and that is why we are convinced that Teleport 1.0 needs an upgrade if it is to become a more efficient platform from a logistics point of view. This evolution is to called Teleport 2.0.
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