{"id":193,"date":"2018-07-23T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2018\/07\/23\/industry-not-maximising-tech-phenomena\/"},"modified":"2018-07-23T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T12:32:00","slug":"industry-not-maximising-tech-phenomena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2018\/07\/23\/industry-not-maximising-tech-phenomena\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry not maximising tech phenomena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking exclusively to <em>Port Strategy<\/em> at TOC Europe 2018, Marco Fehmer said that \u201cthe challenge is no longer having access to this technology; it is using the right technology to give you a return on investment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should ask which are the solutions that better fit with your actual needs and not just go for automation or digitalisation if you don\u2019t need it,\u201d Mr Fehmer explained.<\/p>\n<p>Because each terminal has \u201ca different case\u201d and a different situation concerning different concepts, each solution\u2019s value alters depending on the terminal, the chief executive argued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPorts need to think a bit more smartly about how they make these choices for digitalisation and automation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A challenge for the ports and terminals industry is to make the best use of the information it has today. \u201cSharing information nowadays should no longer be an issue,\u201d he said.\u201d I think ports are ready [to be] part of this \u2018big network\u2019, let\u2019s say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Fehmer also told PS that he predicts increasing consolidation between different ports and terminals in the short term, with this consolidation being driven by traffic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a business in itself to find which are the best ports, where to enter and where to access the regional market,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ports and terminals industry is failing to make the most of digitalisation and automation, the chief executive of IT and consultancy firm Data and System Planning has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terminal-operations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}