Are you familiar with the digital transformation of the maritime sector? Have you heard of a Smart Port or of a Digital Twin? These digital terms are becoming more used and more well-known. Smart Ports, which are digital ports, are changing ports operations worldwide, making them more efficient and helping them gain a competitive advantage. A Digital Twin of a port is a virtual representation of the entire port, which gives port authorities a 360-degree view of all port activities. Digitalization is currently revolutionizing the maritime industry.
Maritime activities have always been the cornerstone of global trade. All throughout history, the human population has been aware that one of the main elements of having a successful and prosperous economy was securing access to the sea and vessels.
Freight forwarders are key actors in the global supply chain. Being a fundamental intermediate between carriers and shippers, they interact with multiple parties from various sectors and manage a huge amount of data.
A Smart Port is a digital port. “Smart” means being more attractive and innovative in a competitive sense. A Smart Port is a more effective, more performant, and more economically competitive port.
Climate change is a pressing issue, and we need to act together to find solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prevent further harm to our climate and oceans. Thankfully, AI has the ability to help humans discover new solutions by using advanced data processing.
Artificial Intelligence is a key technology for smart ports and the reason for port automation. In fact, without AI smart ports could not exist. AI converts data with powerful algorithms to replicate the thought process of humans.
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The research in Artificial Intelligence aims at producing machines that have the same capabilities as the human mind to perform tasks such as understanding language, recognizing pictures, solving problems, and learn.
Yanis SOUAMI was invited to share his vision about the new trends in the maritime industry on BFM Business. He explained the central role of the ocean in the worldwide economy and how a good use of data will change this industry.
In the current era of the Internet and new technologies, the competitive environment and the customers’ behaviors and expectations have evolved. They require reliable, flexible, transparent and cost-efficient transport services.
Freight forwarders are key actors in the global supply chain. Being a fundamental intermediate between carriers and shippers, they interact with multiple parties from various sectors and manage a huge amount of data.
As ports adopt digital technology within their operations, another exciting innovation is making its presence felt: step forward the Digital Twin. This technology is enabling us to see what is happening now – and in the future – to our physical assets and infrastructure.
It is essential to identify cybersecurity in today’s highly varied and diverse ecosystem, where digital media and data are progressively at the center of all activities. Due to this high level of dependence, the maritime shipping business is an attractive target for cybercriminals.
At first thought, one may think that infrastructure expansion must be done physically; however, many ports are adopting digital smart port solutions to cope with a growing marketing and industry expansion.
Port digitalization is the digital transformation of port processes. These processes are always collecting new data, evolving, and learning. This gives stakeholders real-time situational awareness of all events going on in their ecosystem. This transformation is a big cultural change for the maritime industry.
Maritime activities have always been the cornerstone of global trade. All throughout history, the human population has been aware that one of the main elements of having a successful and prosperous economy was securing access to the sea and vessels.
3D CityScapes’ Digital Twin technology and Sinay’s advanced Artificial Intelligence algorithms, data, sensor information, and maritime industry knowledge are well on their way to enhancing seaports in an unprecedented way.
With a growing maritime and shipping industry, smart ports, ports encompassing technology innovations, care for the environment, and concern for surrounding stakeholders, are gaining popularity.
Ports globally face challenges every day due to infrastructure, global trade, production capacity, finances, regulation compliance, safety and security, sustainability, digitalization, and lack of community support. These maritime challenges however can be converted into opportunities through smart port transformation.
Smart Ports, ports that encompass digitalization and a deep concern for their stakeholders, are changing the future of the maritime and shipping sector. Business activities are constantly changing, and smart technologies, such as artificial intelligence, IoT, big data, blockchain, and 5G, are driving port innovation.
A Smart Port is a digital port. “Smart” means being more attractive and innovative in a competitive sense. A Smart Port is a more effective, more performant, and more economically competitive port.
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Digitalization is the idea that all data is provided to all stakeholders in real-time on one open platform to improve efficiency and accurate decision-making. Digitalization leverages on digitization (transformation from physical to digital) by bringing value to company roles instead of just replacing them.
Port digitalization is the digital transformation of port processes. These processes are always collecting new data, evolving, and learning.
Port digitalization is extremely effective for operations.
Ports can adopt automation processes, process cargo, and containers at a higher speed with less error, and increase their effectiveness.
Port digitalization, in the future, can go as far as to create interconnectedness between all maritime actors. This is a long-term solution that would connect an international network of Smart Ports which would increase transparency between shipping companies, ports, and stakeholders.
Port digitalization is changing the container handling industry. With a growing world and economy, ships are getting larger, and more containers are being unloaded at terminal docks. Thanks to port digitalization, port quay operations are becoming safer, more efficient, more accurate, and more traceable. This fixes the past issue of terminals being unsafe due to heavy machinery, data inaccuracy, and untraceable activities.
With digitalized quay operations, there is full automation of dangerous equipment like cranes, which with technology have operators using advanced data to control them from remote tower
Port digitalization is the foundation of Smart Ports and Digital Twins.
A Smart Port is a more effective, more performant, and a more economically competitive port. Not only that, but Smart Ports consider residents a key stakeholder of their activities. They use real–time information, a collaborative management approach, and essentially provide more with less.
A Smart Port is green, digital, and more connected to logistics, industrial environments, and sustainable development resources. They are automated ports using new technologies while caring more for the marine environment.
Smart Port technologies include Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain technology, and 5G connection.
A Digital Twin is a virtual representation of the real world. Therefore, a Digital Twin is a digital representation of the entire port. This includes the physical objects, processes, relationships, and behaviors between all activities and actors. With a Digital Twin, authorities can better manage assets and observe the entirety of operations. They are the foundation for the future of shipping, which is autonomous vessels. They can even visualize the current versus expected performance of their port and compare themselves to others internationally. Digital Twins take maritime data that is challenging to understand and turn it into comprehensible data that increases business efficiency.
Digital Twins can analyze how rising sea levels due to global warming will affect their operations, protect environmental zones thanks to powerful AI tools, and easily share and collaborate with global supply chain actors.
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