Webinars

Maximising the Lifespan of Aging Terminal Cranes As terminal cranes age, maintaining their structural integrity and operational efficiency becomes a growing challenge. How can you extend their lifespan, optimise maintenance strategies, and ensure long-term reliability? Join us for an exclusive deep dive into the latest advancements in crack detection, residual lifetime analysis, and predictive maintenance. Industry experts from Villari, Iv, Duisport and leading terminal operators will share cutting-edge solutions that help ports and terminals reduce downtime, enhance safety, and maximize asset performance.

19th February 2025 - 14:00 GMT

How to balance initial costs and expected ROI, select the most impactful solutions for your terminal first, and ensure that the innovative solutions are future-proof? In the fast-evolving world of port logistics, automation, and digital transformation are no longer futuristic ambitions: they are essential for operational efficiency, competitiveness, and sustainability. This webinar brings together industry experts with a strong background in automation and digitalization to discuss actionable strategies shaping container terminal operations' future.

Tuesday, October 29th 2024 - 1:00 PM (GMT)

The use a single, centralized digital platform, or "Maritime Single Window" (MSW), is now mandated by the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The digital exchange of MSW data is essential for smooth and efficient port calls.

To enable intelligent and secure information sharing, a Port Community System (PCS) – an open electronic platform that connects multiple systems operated by organizations that make up a port community – is critical.

This webinar will address the MSW initiative and how a PCS can be leveraged to increase efficiency in maritime transport as a component of modern multimodal logistics.

📆 Wednesday, May 29th 2024 - 3:00 PM (BST) 📆

In order to become more efficient, sustainable, and safer, today’s ports increasingly turning to digital technologies to optimize their operations. With more processes being digitalized, seamless connectivity is now a basic functional requirement for ports, as well as an enabler of innovation in smart applications such as remotely managed equipment, predictive maintenance, and intelligent video monitoring. Consequently, maintaining robust, end-to-end cybersecurity to protect a port’s data, systems, equipment and people has never been more important. In this webinar, our industry experts demonstrate how the built-in security protocols and zero trust architecture of private 5G networks, enhanced with the capabilities of Onelayer’s cellular network security platform (including detailed digital fingerprinting and asset visibility), combined with SSH’s remote access management solution all offer an optimized approach to securing digital assets and operations across connected ports.

📅 Wednesday, June 5th 2024 - 2:00 PM (BST) 📅

The telecoms and IT industry paints a rosy picture of what can be accomplished with private 5G (or 4G) networks. Three Group Solutions has hands on experience in designing, building and managing industrial wireless networks in complex port environments and will be sharing technical and strategic tips with honest insight into lessons learned – both good and bad.

During this session, we’ll dive into detail on how to connect port operations, identifying the applications that make most sense to focus on now with the technology that’s available.

As part of CK Hutchison Holdings, Three Group Solutions offers a unique perspective from working closely with Hutchison Ports, CK Hutchison’s 11 mobile operators, and additional port clients. Don’t miss this opportunity to put your questions about connectivity and automation to the team.

Berth planning for container terminals has become more dynamic and complex due to frequent disruptions and constant schedule changes. Berth planning is a crucial function to optimize operational performance, yet many terminals still use rudimentary, outdated tools not geared for today’s dynamic planning needs. Portchain Quay is a modern berth planning solution for terminals and ports to optimize quayside operations.

Join the webinar to learn how more accurate berth planning can improve operations and build trust with your customers and internal stakeholders. Learn how other terminal operators make berth planning more dynamic and proactive to optimize their quayside operations. For terminals already using Portchain Connect for berth alignment with shipping lines, this webinar will highlight how you can leverage both products to take your planning to the next level.

How can container terminal operators stay ahead in a rapidly evolving industry? The key lies in balancing efficiency with 24/7 operations while remaining costs low. Automated systems are the crucial piece of the puzzle, enabling operators to streamline container handling with precision and reliability at the scale required to meet growing trade volumes. Along with this shift, improved data visibility is seeing terminals make data-driven decisions to increase their ability to adapt to market demand and strengthen their market position over the long term.

Join our expert panel, featuring industry leaders Oliver Risse, Investment Partner at HHLA Next, Peter Szelei, Senior Director Business Development at FFERNRIDE and Zack Lu, Senior Project Manager and Principal Consultant at Portwise. The speakers delve into the current state challenges, and prospects of port automation. We discuss the influence of geographical location, explore the advantages that terminal operators are already gaining through automation and learn how operators can maximise the benefits of automation in the near-term.

In this webinar, get insights from the FERNRIDE’s recent survey on container terminal automation and dive deep into the strategies for creating future-poof operations with autonomous technology. Learn more about how the application of human-assisted autonomy is removing barriers to transformation in container terminals with insights from the last 12 months of live operations.

As ports and their supply chain partners digitalize business operations, digital twins are a useful tool for visualizing and understanding complex systems and processes within one integrated model. Ports often start with creating 3D site models that incorporate maps (GIS) and facilities data to help with the planning and development of construction and maintenance projects. These virtual representations of the port site can then be augmented with live sensor and video data to establish digital twins with real-time situational awareness. Furthermore, digital twins that continuously intake real-time data can start to predict emergent issues such as congestion, security threats, heightened energy consumption or network utilization, and automatically respond to them before the problems become critical.

To learn how ports and industry partners are putting this into practice today, join our webinar with leading experts from Massport, Ericsson, Hexagon, and Fresh Consulting.

This FREE webinar is closing out the 3-part series on Enabling Green Ports. In this webinar, you'll learn how to leverage green energy as a revenue stream.

Energy is a potential revenue stream. Beyond balancing the cost of capital investments with savings against grid energy retail prices, self-generation and storage creates opportunities to supply energy to the grid when prices are favorable.

With sufficient self-generation capacity, ports can develop private wire systems, trading energy with nearby businesses, hotels, industrial parks, electric vehicle charging hubs, and green hydrogen facilities. Private wire systems can create a reliable customer base and strengthen the port's sustainability credentials by contributing to the local green economy.

This FREE webinar is the second in a 3-part series on Enabling Green Ports. In this webinar, we will explore how to accurately account for carbon emissions.

Accurately accounting for carbon emissions is critical to becoming a green port. To effectively reduce your carbon footprint, you need to audit energy consumption and identify areas for improvement.

Collecting and analyzing data on energy use across your facilities and operations requires practical monitoring systems, data management processes, and carbon accounting tools. Once a baseline is established, a route map can be drawn up to decarbonise your operations in the most cost-effective way. Support can be given to build capability and capacity where needed, as well as to track and report emissions reductions.

This FREE webinar kicks off a 3-part series on Enabling Green Ports. In this first webinar, we will tackle the challenges of energy security.

Energy security is one of the key challenges ports face in their journey to net zero. As the 2022 international energy price spike showed, external factors can cause operating costs to surge. Renewables have the benefit of being nationally or locally based, reducing reliance on global energy markets. Ports are ideally placed to develop their own renewable generating capacity. However, renewables are ‘intermittent’, in line with fluctuating daily and seasonal weather patterns. This calls for energy storage and microgrid management.

Explore top use cases ports can implement to benefit from applying AI-powered computer vision and OCR to live video feeds from cellular-connected/5G security cameras. Showcasing the value of what this trio can do within port security, container management & asset tracking, and real-time digital twins.

Intelligent cameras that can stream high-quality live video to which AI-driven technologies can be applied are becoming increasingly valuable for multiple purposes, including port security, container tracking, gate management, and the development of real-time digital twins. Security cameras can easily recognize faces for frictionless access or capture a container’s information and track it as it moves from ship to shore to hinterland transport and provide real-time intelligence on the state of up-to-the minute port conditions, as long as they are connected with secure, seamless, and ultra-high bandwidth connectivity. In this webinar, learn how private cellular networks enable multiple use cases in securing and optimizing port operations with 5G/LTE cameras and explore which ones ports can implement first to get the most value from applying AI-powered computer vision to their video data.

Join us on this FREE webinar and hear from industry experts on Building Resilient Economies: Empowering Governments through Digital Transformational Strategies in Global Trade.

We're excited to have you join us as we embark on a journey to unite industry leaders like yourself. Our goal? To collaboratively explore strategies and opportunities that can empower developing nations to optimize their government processes, leading to remarkable efficiency gains. By embracing these insights, you'll be able to reduce operational costs and navigate trade regulations more smoothly, all while revolutionizing how your business engages with government entities. Together, we're steering towards a future where digital approaches take center stage, fostering transparency and cultivating a conducive arena for trade, investment, and economic growth.

Digitalization is an essential part of current and future developments in the maritime sector, especially when it comes to optimizing port operations. A Port Community System (PCS) – an open electronic platform that connects multiple systems operated by organizations that make up a port community – enables the intelligent and secure exchange of information between public and private stakeholders including harbor masters, pusher tugboat operators, pilots and logistics companies.

In this FREE webinar, learn about PCS as a service, and how it addresses challenges faced by small- and medium-sized ports that lack IT support and rely heavily on manual communication and synchronization processes. With it, port administrators and other stakeholders can redefine efficiency; harness the power of real-time collaboration, actionable analytics and unmatched scalability; and seamlessly navigate regulatory compliance.

Join us for a FREE webinar and hear from terminal operators and workplace safety innovation providers on how to improve your safety performance through innovation.

There are new approaches to safety using both high and low technology being employed by the cargo supply chain today, this roundtable webinar will look at what is available now, what is approaching and how you can innovate to succeed.

​​​​​​​Explore with us the range and types of safety innovation available to make your organisation more sustainable and help your people go home from work in the same condition that they arrived.

This webinar aims to explore the current container terminal challenges related to operator training and automation development of the cranes and how the digital twin-based, advanced simulators could successfully address both. Presentations from Siemens and Adani Hazira Port provide concrete examples of what can be achieved by using Mevea’s advanced simulator solutions. Presentation from Ops Factor highlights the challenges and solutions to consider when moving port crane operators from cabin to remote operation.

This webinar will explore the role of ports in creating a green/net-zero logistics chain, examining drivers, challenges and enablers. Mott McDonald and Envision Digital will be showcasing an operator using digital technologies to guide operational efficiencies and plan investments in renewable energy, energy storage, fleet electrification, and low-carbon capital projects.

Emissions optimization is more important, and complicated than ever before. Optimizing your CII rating can certainly help, but there is more to the story. Hosted by Spire Global and StormGeo discover how you can optimize your emissions to CII ratings and beyond.

This webinar aims to explore digital berth alignment and the benefits created through better data sharing & digital handshake for both, carriers and terminals. Portchain’s CCO and co-founder, Thor Thorup, will present the case for better collaboration and share key insights on how Portchain Connect helps digitize berth operations to unlock operational and customer service value for terminal operators.

This Mastercard webinar raises awareness about the visible risks and vulnerabilities amongst ports and their suppliers by illustrating the current cyber risk landscape of the sector in the context of other industries and geographies. Topics include the exploration of the cyber security landscape of Ports and how RiskRecon can evaluate Ports and their cyber Hygiene and exploring the importance of 3rd party suppliers and best practices within Cyber Security.

Climate change is already exposing ports to more extreme weather occurrences and these can cause millions in damage repair and downtime. Today, ports are taking note of climate change, but many are still deciding what to do about it. In this webinar, maritime and port professionals discuss how ports could adapt their operations to avoid weather-related problems before they happen and how to mitigate the effects of unavoidable events using smart technology.

In this session, Blume Global’s Lincoln Pei will discuss the current state of the West Coast ports, detailing the current congestion issues and challenges that may emerge in 2022, while Blume’s Lisa Wheldon will provide a walkthrough of the pain points experienced on the East Coast. The speakers will then discuss these unique issues in the context of the broader supply chain industry, exploring how port trouble impacts all modes of the logistics arena. Finally, the two will weigh different options for speedy congestion remediation and talk about what it will take to get the supply chain untangled.

Achieving efficient terminal operations has become increasingly more challenging due to growing volume of operations, increased costs and losses due to disruptions, increased concerns with cybersecurity and more.

Discussed in this session:

- Freight and logistics trends and supply chain impact
- Malta Freeport Terminals journey to build port capacity, visibility and digitization within operations
- Importance of mission critical connectivity and visibility for maritime operational technology outcomes

A regional forum where industry leading partners, agencies and government stakeholders in the maritime sector collaborate to share ideas, enablers & success stories to help developing countries build a resilient, progressive, and thriving maritime sector, through use of technology. Topics cover actions and strategies for government and private sector to maximize the benefits of digitalization in maritime trade, build an innovation ecosystem and encourage collaboration. This assumes even greater importance today, as many countries and economies try to make a sustainable recovery from the ravages of the covid-19 pandemic.

Data Exchange between stakeholders in the supply chain has expanded exponentially during the COVID-19 pandemic, as it becomes a “must” as opposed to a “wish”. Port Community Systems, Cargo Community Systems and Single Windows have successfully been exchanging information for many years. This webinar will consider what the future of these electronic exchange platforms may be and how they form the basis of trust within the supply chain to allow for the efficient, optimised and electronic exchange of data between all stakeholders.

In this webinar we have a unique opportunity to hear from 5 world leading companies discussing autonomous automation and supply chain collaboration whilst achieving sustainability at the same time. The 5 speaker panel will demonstrate cost-effective autonomous retrofitting solutions for a sustainable future that provides resilience and self-aware operations with safety in addition to how V2X enabled fleet operator provides intelligent fleet scheduling, adaptive global path planning and environment perception map for smarter in-term operations.

In this webinar, maritime experts will discuss:

- Data analysis and visualization to assist with understanding current and future situations
- Accessing automatic tracking system (AIS) and complementary data to understand individual and fleet movements
- The importance of situational awareness in just-in-time arrival concepts
- The need for common definitions and standardisation of message formats for port call processes’ data exchange

The resilience that container traffic showed during 2020 provides terminal operators a strong foundation for planning for the future. There are various ways existing terminals can upgrade their operations to meet the requirements of shipping lines and shippers 2022 and onwards. The key questions for terminals, especially for ones built 10-20 years ago is:

- How to remain relevant in the future?
- How to ensure that the investment already made will deliver the performance and capacity that is expected by the customers over the years to come?

Join Vaisala for this engaging webinar where experts will be talking about:

- Current weather challenges facing port authorities
- What causes windshear in port environments
- How precision weather instruments and systems provide advance warning of changes in wind speed

Demand for flexible, efficient and cost effective technology solutions in ports and terminals has never been higher. Terminals are increasingly looking towards new solutions like the cloud and a software as a service (SaaS) model to run their operations.

Port digitalization was already a major trend within the maritime industry, but since the outbreak of COVID-19 it has become more important as ports must find ways to keep trade flowing as efficiently as possible.

PCS is the digital platform that enables networking between the public, private agents and entities involved in the ship and cargo services offered by ports, and its’ main function is to digitize port operations. In this PTI webinar, Valenciaport and others will talk us through…

As container throughput continues to grow it is becoming clear to many terminal operators that today’s networks are not up to the task if they seek to achieve operational excellence and improve productivity among a hugely competitive market.

Terminals are looking to have more information gathered for their operations using AI, recognising patterns. It is key data that can be automated, and it is getting easier for industry to develop this so many organizations are investing heavily into this. With the use of AI-driven models’ users can look deeper into their operations and…

Port-centric logistics is used to describe logistics and distribution services based at the port where goods arrive. At its heart, it is intended to be an alternative to inland depots and centrally located national distribution centres. In practice PCL allows shipments to be stored at ports and therefore cut the number of handling stages throughout…

Recently, the supply chain has made major advancements and invested heavily in technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and the internet of things. These in turn have created new standards and expectations, around visibility and collaboration…​​

Automation once hailed much promise for the sector yet varied results in implementation has shown us that automating a terminal is no quick fix. In fact, if terminal automation is done in a half-hearted or haphazard manner it can even become a net negative. With further concerns arising from unions worried about job losses, automating can appear a risky…​​

Automation once hailed much promise for the sector yet varied results in implementation has shown us that automating a terminal is no quick fix. In fact, if terminal automation is done in a half-hearted or haphazard manner it can even become a net negative. With further concerns arising from unions worried about job losses, automating can appear a risky…​​