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APBA successfully tests a solution for autonomous traceability and geolocation of the cargo with Artificial Intelligence
The APBA, within the framework of its open innovation programme and in collaboration with IDOM, through the Innovation Technical Office, and Amazon Web Services as a technological partner, has successfully tested and validated an innovative solution in the field of advanced data science and artificial intelligence. The challenge, which consists of carrying out the traceability […]
The Port of Algeciras takes part in the Smart Port Conference organised by Telefónica at The Cube in Sevilla.
APBA attended the Smart Port Conference organised by Telefónica in February 2020 at the crowd-working space The Cube, located in the Cartuja Science and Technology Park in Sevilla. Over the course of the conference, in addition to being informed about the most advanced solutions offered by Telefónica in relation to smart and connected ports, APBA’s […]
APBA gets the UNE 166002 Certification for its Innovation Management System
Last December, APBA was awarded RD&i Management System certification by AENOR, crediting our Port Authority with UNE 166002:2014 Standard compliance to do research, development and innovation activities in the areas of logistics and port business. The award ceremony took place at APBA headquarters and was witnessed by our Chairman, Mr. Gerardo Landaluce Calleja; our General […]
APBA joins the European Technology Platform ALICE
APBA has joined the European Technology Platform ALICE in order to be part of the breakthroughs reached in the field of the Physical Internet. ALICE, officially launched in 2013, was created to develop an innovation, research and implementation strategy in logistics, in particular when it comes to the supply chain within Europe. Its aim is […]
Smart Ports Summit 2019 (Smart City Expo World Congress)
Our port took part at the 2019 edition of the Smart Ports Summit conference in Barcelona between the 19th and 21st November last. The event coincided with the Smart City Expo World Congress and aimed to disclose how ports could bring in new business, adjust to fresh global demands and even see a jump in […]
APBA adopts GS1 Standards to make our supply chains more efficient
At APBA, we have partnered up with AECOC-GS1 Spain, the Spanish delegation of the worldwide GS1 corporation that pioneers the main technological development and promotion standards. In an ever-increasing realm of data volumes, GS1 Standards enable everyone to share the same language to identify, harvest and share product, asset, service and positioning data throughout the […]
2nd Edition of the Algeciras BrainPort Award for Best Bachelors and Masters Degree Dissertations
APBA and FCTA launched the second Algeciras BrainPort Awards ceremony in October last to continue to acknowledge the talent and contribution of innovative initiatives of our university students and researchers who ponder all the aspects of the port-logistics business. Our own innovation for the awards ceremony was to award two prizes: one for the Best […]
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 their services on the platform, thereby streamlining logistics planning and transportation to and from end customers (shippers) through our port. Mitmynid is […]
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. The panel session brought together the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), Navis, Miros-Group, Algeciras Port Authority and it […]
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 brought together more than 400 conference-goers and was organised into several expert logistics, trade and technology panels […]
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 Forum, both being organised by the Zhejiang Seaport Group together with other business organisations and leading ports such as Algeciras […]
Prior Market Consultation: Predictive and prescriptive intelligence for the optimization of port logistic operations at Algeciras Port
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 officially launched. The purpose of the consulted initiative is to optimize the operational processes, through advanced analytical techniques, associated to the passage of cargo flowing through the multi-terminal […]
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 system had not been good enough to cover every day needs. The start-ups aim is to become a global standard to point […]
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 world. Along strategic lines that are based on driving its customers digital transformation, Huawei hosted several exhibitions and […]
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 Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Ports 4.0 and welcomed more than 120 guests in our aim to use this as a meeting point for […]
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, develop and test out 5G technology pilot schemes to see if future investment by Spanish operators could be justified. At […]
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, to reward the best Masters Dissertation from a selection of works submitted by various universities throughout 2018. Its aim is to promote applied research and […]
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 Algeciras Port Authority as well as external agents who would like to join the initiative with innovative ideas that respond to the different challenges. […]
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 Madrid and brought together a host of delegates who represented Ports and Port Authorities, and the tech companies involved […]
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 World Maritime Week international conference that was being held in Bilbao. Joining IPCSA was a key factor in the development […]
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 of IBM and Maersk. Its aim is to enhance transparency and visibility throughout supply chains. The co-working platform, launched […]
Beyond the Horizon: Opportunities and Obstacles in the Maritime AI Boom
It is evident that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly expanded within the maritime industry, being regarded as a revolutionary force that brings significant improvements to operational efficiency, safety, and sustainability. This article, commissioned by Lloyd’s Register and prepared by Thetius, explores how the maritime-port sector, traditionally resistant to change, is adopting AI in key applications […]
The Future of RoPax Operations in Smart Ports
As ports become more complex and interconnected, the need for intelligent systems to manage traffic flow, resource allocation, and environmental impact has become critical. This report highlights the key role digital technologies are playing in transforming port and maritime logistics, outlining what the future vision of RoPax traffic operations should look like. From the use […]
Tangram, global centre for training & innovation
CMA CGM Group has inaugurated Tangram, a global center dedicated to maritime training and innovation, located in Marseille, this facility aims to foster collaboration among CMA CGM employees, clients, partners, start-ups, and academic institutions by offering specialized training programs in climate, artificial intelligence, and leadership, developed in partnership with leading universities. This center has been […]
How resilient ports can mitigate global supply chain disruptions – The Container Port Performance Index 2023
Global supply chains struggle to ensure reasonable prices for their products. International events, such as wars, natural disasters and national crisis have a direct impact on its performance. These disruptions can produce operational inefficiencies, production delays or increasing costs, showing the hidden, but real, fragile side of supply chains. However, each sector has an individual […]
Artificial Intelligence leads the way
Over the last few years, the logistics-port sector has understood that digital transformation and technological development are fundamental elements to face a scenario plagued by disruptions, geopolitical tensions, demands for environmental care and changes in consumption patterns. It is true that the use of technologies such as Blockchain and IoT have gained weight. However, we […]
Supply chain trends 2024: The digital shake-up.
The supply chain world is being shaken by new technologies. The evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI), advanced data analytics, software development and many other tools, or even the demand for transparency and sustainability are forcing a digital transformation of organizations, which must adapt to these requirements if they want to remain competitive. To do so, […]
The Digital Innovation Center of the Port of Algeciras as a Natural Evolution of its Port Innovation Model
The port and maritime transport sectors are immersed in a dynamic and uncertain scenario marked by a series of unprecedented challenges. Firstly, the positioning of ports as intermodal logistics hubs, at the epicenter of global logistics chains, determines the new role that these enclaves are destined to play. Their transformation process is an unavoidable issue […]
Practical application of the digital twin and AI at the Port of Algeciras – A pilot for optimazing ferry operations
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Supply Chains building a Digital Twin of the customer
One of Gartner’s latests Survey highlights the raising trend that the Digital Twin of the Customer (DToC) is gaining over Chief Supply Chain Officer’s (CSCO) interests’ and digital strategies’. This rather new all-encompassing technology has come to enlighten the customer experience by unveiling a dynamic, virtual mirror representation of a customer, understood as profile characterizations […]
Finding the right role in green corridors
Green corridors are specific trade routes between major port hubs that prioritize and demonstrate zero-emission solutions in shipping, aiming to advance decarbonization efforts. The concept envisions collaboration among stakeholders to coordinate green fuel infrastructure and vessels, creating an enabling ecosystem through targeted regulations, financial incentives, and safety measures. These initiatives should bear in mind the […]
Our fragmented supply chains need a language to link local trusted networks
Achieving data collaboration in a fragmented supply chain has proven to be challenging, despite the need for predictability in goods delivery. While centralized platform solutions have limitations, decentralized methods of data collaboration are promising but still in development. It is considered that true progress will come from sharing operational planning data among stakeholders for actionable […]
Maritime Lagoon: The New Innovation District and Port-CityInteraction of Algeciras
The culture germinated or inspired in port cities, in addition to expressing itself through its different modalities such as music, plastic arts, technology, as well as other areas of human creativity, needs to express itself in architecture and urbanism. In Europe, almost 40% of the population lives in medium-sized cities, such as Algeciras. The social, […]
How to transform your shipping company
The shipping industry has enjoyed a couple of profitable years, but today it must deal with a rapidly changing environment full of uncertainties, due mainly to threats like recession, geopolitical volatility, crew shortages, escalating operating costs, fluctuating cargo demand and uncertainty over the decarbonization roadmap of the sector. Furthermore, the industry is not following at […]
Leading the Future Supply Chain
Current supply chain scenario has moved from a state where disruptions were considered the trend and focus was made even at top-management level, to a lowered disruptive situation in which investments will still be needed to shape organizations’ competitive advantage by developing the supply chain of the future; through a strategical transformation based on commercial […]
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 forces the industry to a major change. And this year 25-year anniversary of EcoPorts, ESPO’s main environmental initiative of the European port sector, proves […]
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 stages that can be found worldwide overt port’s development. And therefore, considering innovation as a transversal key for business improvement. It is commonly […]
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 innovative services, mainly based on the creation of added value. The context of the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea are clear examples of […]
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 spearheads. Nevertheless, there are other benefits not so commonly identified. Sustainability, inclusivity, accessibility, skills enhancement and workplace attraction can also be achieved when deploying automation. Regarding labor force, […]
Innovation Report 2022
The Innovation Report summarizes the main actions and achievements related to the innovation and digital transformation activity driven by the Algeciras Port Authority and its innovation ecosystem during 2022. This Report includes, on the one hand, all the projects and initiatives carried out by multiple stakeholders from its innovation ecosystem and, on the other hand, […]
Innovation Report 2021
The Innovation Report summarizes the main actions and achievements related to the innovation and digital transformation activity driven by the Algeciras Port Authority and its innovation ecosystem during 2021. This Report includes, on the one hand, all the projects and initiatives carried out by multiple stakeholders from its innovation ecosystem and, on the other hand, […]
Innovation Report 2020
The Innovation Report summarizes the main actions and achievements related to the innovation and digital transformation activity driven by the Algeciras Port Authority and its innovation ecosystem during 2020. This Report includes, on the one hand, all the projects and initiatives carried out by multiple stakeholders from its innovation ecosystem and, on the other hand, […]
Innovation Report 2019
The Innovation Report summarizes the main actions and achievements related to the innovation activity driven by the Algeciras Port Authority and its innovation ecosystem during the year 2019. This Report includes, on the one hand, all the projects and initiatives carried out by multiple stakeholders from its innovation ecosystem and, on the other hand, it […]
II Award «Innovation Journey» to the best innovative idea
Summary Purpose of the award After the success of the first call, the APBA, called the second edition of the ideas contest of the Innovation Journey, with the aim of continuing to promote, encourage and incentivise innovative activity in the Port of Algeciras Bay (hereinafter, PBA). Unlike the first edition, in this call the APBA […]
II Premio Algeciras BrainPort a los mejores Trabajos de Fin de Grado y Máster (TFG/TFM)
Presentación de los trabajos Los candidatos a los premios deberán presentar los siguientes documentos: Resumen ejecutivo: síntesis de las principales características del trabajo realizado dónde deberá aparecer título, objetivos, problemática u oportunidad (justificación), alcance de la solución, foco de innovación donde se encuadra el trabajo, metodología, resultados, impacto y principales conclusiones. Se deberá presentar en castellano o en […]
I Award “Algeciras BrainPort” to the best Master’s Degree Final Project
Summary Purpose of the Contest The Innovation Awards “Algeciras BrainPort” to the best Master’s Thesis (TFM), sponsored by the Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras (hereinafter, APBA) and the Technological Campus Foundation of Algeciras (hereinafter, FCTA), aim to recognize the talent and contribution to the port of innovative initiatives, carried out by university students […]
I Award “Innovation Journey” to the best innovative idea
Summary Purpose of the award The APBA has been working for some time on what it calls the “Innovation Journey“, an initiative that aims to promote an innovative culture and create an innovative environment where its workers and collaborators can carry out innovative initiatives and ideas for the benefit of the competitiveness of the Port […]
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