Posted on November 9, 2017
An EU-funded green initiatives project aims to define the port of the future and its challenges.
Consulting firm Circle will manage the ‘DocksTheFuture’ project selected by INEA under the EU Horizon 2020 Programme within the ‘Smart, green and integrated transport’ challenge, which includes areas such as aviation, infrastructure, green vehicles and ‘Blue Growth’.
The EUR1.2m project aims to define the ‘Port of the Future’, circa 2030, and the challenges related to simplification and digitalisation of processes, dredging, emission reduction, energy transition, electrification, smart grids, port-city interface and the use of renewable energy management.
2030 targets
The project sets out to refine the Port of Future concepts, topics and their related targets in 2030, identify appropriate KPIs, monitoring and evaluation and lead to the ‘Port of the Future Road Map for 2030’.
The road map will include tools for evaluation and transferability of Port of the Future solutions, R&D and policy recommendations, training packages and the creation of a ‘Port of the Future Network of Excellence’.
Circle will lead a working group consisting of academic partners (Institut für Seeverkehrswirtschaft und Logistik – ISL in Bremen, Germany, and University of Genoa, Italy) and of consulting companies Magellan (Portugal) and Ports Expertise (Belgium).
The project is due to run for 30 months from January 2018.
Source: portstrategy
