Research/Innovation
A category of news covering the use of research and innovation by ports and the port community. This includes research into new technology to improve performance in port activities. It is prominent in the sector of technology to address environmental issues.
Bournemouth University launches SPEED, part of a European funded Interreg 2 Seas project
Bournemouth University is using Wazoku’s idea management platform, Idea Spotlight, to power the stakeholder engagement in the SPEED project, a major...
New Spectrum Releases Drive New Conference on Wireless Networks in Ports
News Release – BWCS – December 4, 2019 The battle to supply ports with fast, reliable wireless networks is rapidly heating up. As Dockside...
Digital Transport Corridor workshops take place in Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania
Digital Transport Corridor working meetings were organised by the EU4Digital Facility in Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania on 25, 26 and 28 November. The aim of...
Valenciaport becomes most transparent port with its time-scale tracking tool
This tool is key for shipping companies to improve their competitiveness. The study allows to know the operating time and idle time of the vessels in the...
Bilbao port attends Smart City Expo World in Barcelona with Port 4.0
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) November 18, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (APB – Port Authority of Bilbao) has announced that it will...
APM Terminals Barcelona presents 5G V2X crane communication systems
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) November 25, 2019 – Speaking at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, APM Terminals Barcelona’s Sergi...
Prime Ministers of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan launch transcontinental digital link
Prime Minister Askar Mamin and Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Ali Asadov took part in the ceremony of a Trans-Caspian Fiber Optic (TCFO) link to construct a...
Puertos del Estado meets Accenture to discuss 5G
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) November 15, 2019 – President of Puertos del Estado, Salvador de la Encina and head of the Cabinet, Ana María García,...
Tanger Med takes step to digitalise agri-food export processes
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) November 8, 2019 – As part of the digitalisation of Tanger Med’s service offering through the implementation of...
Circle S.p.A.: supports AdSP del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority) for BCLink project which links Civitavecchia & Barcelona
Circle S.p.A., a specialized company in the analysis of processes and in the development of automation solutions and for the digitalisation of the port sectors...
3rd LOOP-Ports internal meeting is held in the Port Authority of Ravenna
More than 20 different agents from Port Authorities and other stakeholders from several countries, have been interviewed to identify which system drivers...
“Smart Ports. Piers of the Future” to make Barcelona world capital of port innovation
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 3, 2019 – The “Smart Ports. Piers of the Future” event, to be held November 19-21 locally, will make...
Customs and Monopoly Agency modernizes digitalisation at the port systems of Western Ligurian Sea and Eastern Adriatic Sea
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 1, 2019 – L’Agenzia Dogane e Monopoli (Customs and Monopolies Agency) has signed a protocol with AdSP del Mar...
Seville port leads a European innovation project to integrate maritime and land transport
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) October 30, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Sevilla (APS – Port Authority of Seville) has launched the AIRIS II-Synchro...
Barcelona Container Depot Service opens new automated access
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 30, 2019 -Barcelona Container Depot Service has inaugurated a new automated access with the objective of improving the...
Valenciaport Cluster Innovation Committee active through working groups
Fundación Valenciaport (Valenciaport Foundation) – October 24, 2019 This week the meetings of two of the three working groups created within the...
Valenciaport to set up Center of Excellence in innovation & entrepreneurship in climate change for port sector
APV, the Valenciaport Foundation and EIT Climate-KIC today inaugurated the #SuperLabPorts in the port of Valencia to lead the action against climate change in...