📍 Digital Theatre
According to the World Bank only 34% of ports utilize digital trade platforms, such as Maritime Single Windows (MSWs), the electronic bill of lading (eBL), or port community systems (PCSs).This low digital landscape is partly due to a lack of funding and reluctancy to embrace data collaboration as a way of empowering maritime trade, which not only makes it less efficient but also more susceptible to cyberattacks. While countries and political blocks deal with this matter by developing their own single trade platforms, some industry experts question this approach, advocating for a single trade window of global scale – which the right approach remains a matter of discussion.
There are several separate industry-led initiatives looking to harmonize digital protocols and enable interoperability, however, these efforts must be incorporated by industry stakeholders and decision-makers into their business processes, from top to bottom. Even with the World Trade Organization (WTO) developing a regulatory framework to accelerate this process, the industry itself must understand the business value within data collaboration to reach effective interoperability.
The recent agreement on signed by DCSA members on fully adopting the eBL by 2030 is major step forward paperless maritime trade. It is now time to streamline data into a single interoperable system.
KEY TALKING POINTS
What is the goal of interoperability?
What are the barriers that slow down interoperability of maritime trade digital systems across the industry?
What are the steps towards interoperability across maritime trade digital systems?
How does each maritime trade platform interact with each other? What are the achievements and what are the misses?
Understanding data governance & security: Who is accountable for the security of data in a collaborative environment and what is the scale of their jurisdiction?
How can interoperability be sustainable in the long-term?
Pascal Ollivier, President, Maritime Street & Chairman, IAPH Data Collaboration Committee
PRESENTATION TITLE TO BE ANNOUNCED Mees van der Wiel, Business Consultant Strategy & Innovation, Portbase & PROTECT Secretariat, International Port Community Systems Association (IPCSA)
PRESENTATION TITLE TO BE ANNOUNCEDBertrand Chen, CEO, Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN)
STANDARDIZATION HAS ENDED, IMPLEMENTATION HAS STARTEDCapt. Ben van Scherpenzeel, Chairman, International Taskforce Port Call Optimisation
PRESENTATION TITLE TO BE ANNOUNCEDNico De Cauwer, Business Architect Digitalisation & Port Community Projects, Port of Antwerp-Bruges
PRESENTATION TITLE TO BE ANNOUNCEDSanna Vainionpää, Director of Domain Strategy, Head of Maritime, Siili
