Abstract
To overcome the challenges that the maritime sector faces, the future must embody more efficient and effective collaboration. This cannot realistically be achieved without further digitalisation. This chapter identifies the principal tensions and opportunities that impact the inevitable and ongoing digitalisation process that is underway in the maritime transportation sector. The chapter also identifies the trends of development at large and those associated with the key stakeholders that are involved in global maritime operations.
The digital trends emerging in shipping companies, ports with its actors, authorities and associations, and movements that are being made by diverse digital solution providers, within and outside the maritime domain are also identified. The discussion takes the point of view that shipping is a global phenomenon enabled by ship movements creating a global network of sea transport facilitated by ports.
Achieving higher levels of collaboration through digitalisation requires that tools and systems are interoperable by adopting harmonised open standards. It requires the use of standardised formats and standardised interfaces for communication, building upon commonly agreed definitions of phenomena and processes associated with port call operations. The chapter closes with a brief discussion on the emergence of “smart” ports and “smart” ships, which rely heavily of digitalisation, collaboration and the continuous sharing of and access to relevant data.
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There are 96,295 commercial ships of 100 GT and above (c.f. http://stats.unctad.org/maritime) and 51,684 commercial ships of 1000 GT and above (c.f. https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/rmt2019_en.pdf)
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In 2018, there were 4,112,944 port calls made of ships of 1000 GT and above (c.f. http://stats.unctad.org/maritime)
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Amendments to the Facilitation Convention were adopted in 2016 and entered into force on 1 January 2017. The FAL Convention amendments make it mandatory for ships and ports to exchange FAL data electronically from 8 April 2019.
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NCSR 6/8/2, IMO 2018
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Digitalization in Maritime Transport: Ensuring Opportunities for Development, UNCTAD Policy Brief No. 75, Geneva, 2019. https://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=2479
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https://research.inmarsat.com/. Accessed 4 March 2020
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Lind, M. et al. (2021). Maritime Informatics for Increased Collaboration. In: Lind, M., Michaelides, M., Ward, R., T. Watson, R. (eds) Maritime Informatics. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50892-0_8
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