Shipping 4.0 - The Sea of Tomorrow: Success event reflected on the future of Transportation and Logistics
hipping 4.0 - The Sea of ??Tomorrow: Success event reflected on the future of Transportation and Logistics
The event 'Shipping 4.0 - The Sea of ??Tomorrow' was held yesterday at the ENIDH facilities. The Portuguese maritime-port and logistic sectors have come together in weight to address issues 4.0 which, in an increasingly intense way, shape and transform the global understanding of the phenomena that make up shipping. Promoted by AGEPOR and J. Canao, the seminar was based on success, fomenting the debate on a multiplicity of topics and illuminating the path of the digitization and its potentialities.
The keynote of António Belmar da Costa opened the session and perfectly mirrored the spirit of the initiative: "This will not be for our children, it will still be for us, because the future is already here". Once the introductions had been made, it was time to start with the planned interventions - the first, by Miguel Marques (partner in the PwC), linked the Mar to the digital revolution, "a paradigm shift" that will be "on the agenda for many years" the predominance of 'clear trends' that are already part of the shipping news. Miguel Marques's speech was followed by the intervention of Pedro Galveia (Berth & Yard Operations Expert at Yilport Sotagus), in which cyber-physical systems have gained prominence in the context of an increasingly global connectivity paradigm where challenges are trampled, from the 'management and heterogeneity' of the data collected, to privacy and 'control and security of communications', to the storage capacity of an increasingly multiple and long-winded information flow that is available to be capitalized .
Shipping 4.0 - The Sea of ??Tomorrow 'was continued in the speeches of Nuno Laginha and Nuno Delgado, both specialists in the CGI company, which has been evidenced in the development of responses to the new demands of maritime services through innovative technologies and their vast experience in developing and implementing solutions. Their interventions focused on the debate on the impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) on the management and operation of maritime services. José Carlos Simão, president of DGRM, was another of the outstanding attendees at the event - his intervention elucidated the audience about the gradual transformations implemented in the Maritime Administration of a year ago. In order to characterize the complexity of the establishment of the new generation of systems in the DGRM, José Carlos Simão gave an introductory explanation of the scope of functions of the organism and its multiplicity of stakeholders, "from the small fisherman to the great owner". Given the 'wide diversity of application systems', the process of 'partial consolidation of DGRM systems' and the 'search for compatibility' has been a success, as evidenced by SNEM and BMAR.
"Where is the future of Shipping 4.0?" Asked Carlos Vasconcelos
The intervention was completed by the contribution of Carlos Vasconcelos, who, in a personal capacity, analyzed the principles of the evolution of shipping, starting the speech with the question: "Where is the future of Shipping 4.0?" - to the specialist , technological progress leaves the sector at a "great crossroads", where opportunities and threats are mixed in a way from which the essence of profitability and efficiency must be filtered, but without forgetting the importance of the human component in a future that can be guessed uncertain. Stating that "the entire production process will be fully automated," Carlos Vasconcelos expects a "redefinition of the logistical process" due to the metamorphic forces of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and the dematerializing effects that guide the digitization.
Following the succession of speeches, a fruitful and fruitful discussion session followed, where participants had the opportunity to put questions to the invited speakers in an exchange of ideas on topics such as the relevance of autonomous ships (and the inherent need for regulation by the IMO), and the fate of the human workforce in the context of increasing automation and the potential threats of 3D printing technology, characterized as "the most disruptive of all times", according to Carlos Vasconcelos.
