Saving the environment

The concept, also known as Port CDM, is now being piloted in Valencia and Gothenburg. One major benefit is that arriving vessels can avoid unnecessary anchoring and steam slower, thus saving money and the environment.

Ulf Siwe, MONALISA 2.0 Communications Officer, told GreenPort: “These demonstrators help sharing status information between port actors through transparent services. The demonstrators will be further developed in the STM Validation project and will be introduced in the other eleven ports to validate that the concepts is flexible enough to be adapted to different port call processes.”

He added that the main aim of Port CDM is to provide a basis for collaboration between key actors within the port and towards its surroundings based on shared situational awareness enabling increased predictability.

It also aims to enable just-in-time arrivals of ships, just-in-time operations and further on just-in-time integration with hinterland transportation leading to optimised turn-around processes and enable improved resource utilisation for all involved port actors entities and optimised operations.

The wider MONALISA 2.0 project strives to make maritime industry safer, efficient and more environmentally-friendly.

Winners will be revealed at the awards ceremony in London in October.