Smart PortsVirtual Expert Group Meeting

Smart Port Development for sustainable maritime connectivity in Asia and the Pacific – 27th

November 2020

Member of the STC GROUP

Introduction

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Manuel Martinez de Ubago Alvarez de Sotomayor,Project Manager

m.martinez@stc-r.nl

Member of

Smart Ports

o “Smart Ports are the only ports that will survive"

o “It is not about whether ports Will become Smart or not, but when”

o …

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• ‘Smart’ has been an overexposed and abused term

“Everyone talks about digitalization, and nobody knows how to do it, but everyone thinks

everyone else is at it”

(Senior Vice-President marketing/logistics business Deutsche Post DHL Group)

High expectations pre-Covid

Source: joc.com

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Recent disruptions

• Strong economic impact

. Fuente: Review of Maritime Transport 2020, UNCTAD Source: IMO

• COVID-19 has exposed resiliency issues

in ports…

and the rest of the logistics chain

• Strong economic impact

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New post-Covid Smart wave?

• Smart technology as (part of) the solution to all the previous problems?

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• There is not an internationally accepted definition

o Ports are highly complex systems

Increasingly bigger, with higher cargo flows and more actors

Lot of actors, with different goals, interacting during the different port activities

What is a Smart Port?

Port Authority

Goal(s)

Port users & rest of chain

Society

Stakeholder

More competitive, more efficient, attract port users, …

More transparent, reliability of services, costs, …

More inclusive, greener port, safer, …

Based on their interests, each stakeholder may have its own (yet valid) idea of Smart Port

… …

Government More trade, …

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• Our idea about Smart Ports (continuous Work In Progress)

“A port that continuously uses technology as a tool to come up with solutions that can help

ports, port users and workforce improve some or many of their processes and activities, and

therefore bring added value to the port community and the supply chain as a whole”

Fuente: Adapted from Molavi et al (2019)

What is a Smart Port?

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Step by step

• Step-wise, bottom-up process

o Multidisciplinary (Not just an IT project)

o Multistakeholder(Port Authority, Terminal Operators, Pilotage, customs, land and ocean carriers, other Government authorities, Society, etc etc etc)

o Collaborative

o Continuous improvement (non binary model)

Individual parties digitize and digitalize

processes

Port community connected internally

Port community connected with

hinterland

Connected ports and

logistics chains

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Source: Adapted from Port of Rotterdam Authority

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Challenges along the way

• “In your opinion, what are the challenges to develop Smart Ports?”

(open ended question)o 2 sessions in Spanish: Respondents from Colombia (30 participants) and Central

America (+80 participants), from public and private sector

Interactive Mentimeter© tool

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Challenges along the way

TechnicalLack of qualified personnel Quality and availability of data, standardsProblem and processes not properly defined, solution does not solve root problem

Economic Investment needed (CAPEX), enough ROI?Budgetary issues

Legal Regulation can hinder digital transformation

Cultural Skepticism towards new technologiesSkepticism towards collaborating internally and with other entities

Institutional Public, private, or public-private ownership of the solution… …

Source: Adapted from Port of Rotterdam Authority

Individual parties digitize and digitalize

processes

Port community connected internally

Port community connected with

hinterland

Connected ports and

logistics chains

1 2 3 4

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General recommendations

Promote a collaborative ecosystem

Continuous committment to (executive) education

Promote an innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem

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Our related work (to be continued…)

Port digitalization study in LATAM countriesRVO

Past assignments (past 6 months) Work in Progress

Smart Port course Indonesia

Smart Port course DNP Colombia

Smart Port conference COCATRAM(invited speakers)

Development Port digitalization course – in collaboration with Port of Rotterdam Authority

Sustainable & Resilient port development study -UNESCAP

Port digitalization study APEC port services network

Port digitalization study APEC port services network

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I hear and I forgetI see and I rememberI do and I understand

Thank you