Digitalization of Seaports - Visions of the Future

  • Brümmerstedt, Katrin
  • Fiedler, Ralf
  • Flitsch, Verena
  • Jahn, Carlos
  • Roreger, Hendrik
  • Sarpong, Benjamin
  • Saxe, Sebastian
  • Scharfenberg, Benjamin
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Publication date
January 2017
Publisher
Fraunhofer Verlag, Stuttgart

Abstract

The book discusses the potential development of seaports in the context of Digitalization. Major challenges of and business opportunities for seaports arising from the megatrend Digitalization and prerequisites that need to be fulfilled to seize these opportunities are described. Major trends are technological innovations, globalization, demographic change, urbanization, and sustainability as well as port management trends. Digitizing processes in and between seaports leads to a network of seaports that transfers the smartPORT concept to the entire maritime logistics chain, meaning the collaboration and connection of individual Smart Ports. This enables a better handling of complexity. The network is supposed to interlink information and da...

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