IT guide for port productivity

JLT Mobile Computers’ ‘Five ways to make IT your port’s hero not its headache’ guide identifies five recurring challenges that impact IT and operations managers’ efforts to increase port performance and productivity: How to continuously stay up to date and future proof their IT systems; how to optimise network connectivity across large and often outdoor areas; how to procure hardware that is fit for port purposes; how to choose a reliable supplier; and how to engage the workforce.

Per Holmberg, CEO, JLT Mobile Computers Group, stressed that IT should help terminals achieve throughput ambitions, but noted “this is not always the case and many ports find their rugged computers cause more headaches than anything else”.

He added: “As an experienced port IT specialist with numerous happy port customers to our name – Exolgan in Argentina; Basra Gateway Terminal in Iraq; DCT Gdansk in Poland; and OPCSA in Las Palmas among them – we take great pleasure and pride in sharing what we have learned about the unique requirements of this challenging sector in the latest of our free guides to help ease these IT issues.”

Looking at each of the five challenges one by one, the guide gives practical examples and guidelines for actions IT and operations managers can take to ensure their port’s ability to meet today’s as well as tomorrow’s throughput targets.