{"id":253,"date":"2018-07-10T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2018\/07\/10\/still-early-days-for-new-port-tech\/"},"modified":"2018-07-10T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:58:00","slug":"still-early-days-for-new-port-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/terminal-operations\/still-early-days-for-new-port-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Still early days for new port tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking exclusively to <em>Port Strategy<\/em> at TOC Europe, Mr Ranta, who is senior manager for container terminal technology and operations optimisation at the infrastructure advisory company, also claimed that data-driven decision-making is just coming into the sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is great, then people will have more quantifiable decisions based on the actual data, not by perceptions or gut feelings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s still a long way to go, but I love the excitement and the opportunities in that area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ranta also discussed the concept of artificial intelligence (AI), arguing that those involved in terminal operations \u2014 companies, organisations responsible for terminal-operating, consultants and IT companies \u2014 will set the rules for this form of technology for the ports and terminals sector.<\/p>\n<p>However, he believed that \u201cthe people who are behind the business\u201d must set the regulations for AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey need to be able to articulate what kind of solutions they want to have from artificial intelligence development,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ranta predicted that in perhaps the next three years, there will begin to be early adopters for AI solutions and that this will accelerate based on the success of these solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say a five-year horizon is reasonable to say that there will be something done with AI, but it requires commitment and dedication from operators,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The port and terminal industry is still finding its feet with automation and digitalisation, Moffatt &amp; Nichol\u2019s Pekka Ranta 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":[31],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terminal-operations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}