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Analysis from: Pascal Olivier, President, MaritimeStreet; Jerome Besancenot, CIO, Port of Le Havre; Miguel Llop Chabreara, Director of Digital Transformation, Fundacion Valencia Port; Lance Kaneshiro, Port of Los Angeles

Ports around the world will face a multitude of challenges in the coming years. One of those will be the population increase, and subsequent growth in relevance, of port cities.

Smart cities themselves largely comprised of several components, ranging from technology-based infrastructure, high functioning transportation, environmental initiatives and a balance between human and machine interaction. A smart city’s success is determined by its ability to form successful relationships between the government authorities and the private sector. Smart ports are very similar, and the integration of the two requires considerable planning and collaboration.

Ultimately, it will mean greater interaction between port authorities and city governments in the fields of data sharing, cybersecurity and more.

Pascal Olivier emphasises the importance of this population shift as noting “50% of the global population is living in an urban environment and by 2030 we expect that number is going to rise to 60%”.

In addition, by 2030 there will be 39 so-called ‘megacities’, cities with a population of more than 10 million, an increase on the 30 megacities in the world today. That is important because, as Olivier points out, 22% of global container trade passes through these megacities - a share of the market which is going to increase as time goes on.

This has posed a number of challenges, and will continue to do so, in particular on sustainability. For multipurpose ports, such as Le Havre, France, this is a considerable challenge. Jerome Besancenot, the Port of Le Havre’s Chief Innovation Officer (CIO), says that being the main gateway to Paris, the second biggest consumer market in Europe, makes finding smart sustainable solutions a financial and environmental imperative.

It has been rebranded as an official ‘innovation territory’ and will benefit from €35 million ($40 million) government investment to foster innovation and sustainability.

It has two fundamental goals, the first is to revolutionize the relationship between the city and the port, and the second is to expand the competitiveness of the region. The success of this smart port city project will be measured against three main pillars: energy transition, putting citizens at the heart of the port’s ecosystem and the development of technology that can create a successful logistic economy.

The plan is similar to many of the other smart port-related projects and once again makes the point that there is a very precise balance to be struck between utilizing people and technology.

To see its smart port city success, Le Havre will seek to significantly expand its IoT network and for it will need “new technologies, such as 5G”. Ultimately, the aim is to “accelerate the flow of data and goods”.

Increasing the speed at which cargo and information moves through the port means less congestion and paper use, and subsequently greener operations across the port and the city. For a city such as Valencia, whose economy revolves around the port, this is of major importance, especially when there is a large part of the traffic is tourism.

Miguel Llop Chabrera, Director of Digital Transformation, Fundacion Valencia Port, explains that the challenge gains greater significance when one considers the “perception of the port in the city”. A negative perception of the Port of Valencia, he says, is pollution, and this meant it had to minimize the effect of external factors, and, just like Le Havre, it sees investment in green innovation as a viable, long term solution

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The PTI Smart Digital Ports Market Analysis 2020

Worldwide expert perspectives on the digitalisation of Europe’s largest Ports, including an in-depth case study of the Port of Rotterdam

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