STM in Media

2021 June – Transportföretagen – Digital port solves old problem (Swedish)

An app showing real-time operation time stamps enables slot time allocations and just-in-time arrivals

2021 April – Port of Gävle – Port Activity App™ in Port of Gävle (Swedish)

Presenting the public available version of the Port Activity App.

2021 April – ABS – PATHWAYS TO SUSTAINABLE SHIPPING

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CURRENT JIT INITIATIVES
The European Commission (EC) and the governments of South Korea — as well as several port authorities
such as Rotterdam, Valencia and Algeciras — are funding initiatives to improve synchronization of port calls
and voyage planning, the enablers for JIT in shipping.
These initiatives include the Sea Traffic Management (STM) Program and its related EU co-funded research
and development projects (the STM Validation project, Efficient Flow and Real Time Ferries). There are also
initiatives such as the PRONTO project promoted by the Port of Rotterdam and the Pit Stop Operations
project developed by the Port of Algeciras.
The STM project is one of the largest e-navigation projects funded by the EC and it aims to validate the
technical, environmental and financial feasibility of the concept by testing new navigation services on
board 300 ships in collaboration with ECDIS3 suppliers.
The services allow digital transmission of voyage plans and connectivity between these ships, ports and
shore centers through large-scale testbeds in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. More than 50 partners from
13 countries are participating.
For ports, the STM Validation initiative is working on an ambitious set of pilots involving several ports in
Europe: Gothenburg, Valencia, Stavanger, Barcelona and Limassol, among others. The pilots are oriented to
increase the efficiency of coordination of the agents involved in the port-call process by defining a common
communication standard that allows them to exchange information in real time. This enables the agents to
share the various stages and operations related to the port call and receive timestamps in real time.

2021 March – infomarine on-line – A New Breed of Smart Ship Systems With Simulation Capability & AI

A much larger project was the Europe-wide, EUR 43 mn, Sea Traffic Management initiative. Ten simulator training centers – the European Maritime Simulator Network – worked together with the goal of understanding and then facilitating the kind of data exchange that will be crucial for safely operating autonomous vessels.

Wärtsilä, as a simulation provider, took part in this project, which Mills describes as an attempt to establish “air traffic control at sea.” One key goal was understanding the data sharing needed between ports, vessels, and other stakeholders – such as ship service providers and onward logistics companies – to enable “just-in-time” sailing.

2021 March – Seatrade Maritime News – Autonomous shipping over the next 5-10 years

Video with Mikael Lind, Associate Professor and Senior Strategic Research Advisor with Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), is a key player in several open innovation initiatives related to ICT for sustainable transportation of people and goods including Sea Traffic Management and Port Collaborative Decision Making (PortCDM).

2021 March – Kiel Pilots – Pilot 4.0 training course

Course description video – STM mentioned 2:28 for half a minute

2021 March – Fathom – New global ISO-standard for ship-shore data exchange

2021 March – WPSP – New global ISO-standard for ship-shore data exchange

2021 March – Hellenic Shipping – New global ISO-standard for ship-shore data exchange

2021 March – All about shipping – New global ISO-standard for ship-shore data exchange

2021 March – PA Safe newsletter – STM Baltsafe takes a crucial step towards enabling automated voyage reporting

2021 February – steam – STEAM 2nd Annual Newsletter

2021 February – Port of Gävle – Results of the Efficient flow project

During three years, the Port of Gävle has participated in an EU-funded project named Efficient Flow. The project is now coming to an end. The Efficient Flow project has aimed to improve the flow of information for port actors during a ship call. The project is nearing completion, but for the Port of Gävle, work continues with the Port Activity App ™, which is the primary result of the project.

2021 February – Intelligent Maritime Logistics through Digitalisation (Finnish)

A summary of CB EfficientFlow project. In Research Forum 2021 – Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences and Satakunta University of Applied Sciences’ perspectives on digitalisation. Pages 264-277.

2021 January – MDPI Sustainability – Digitalization in Just-In-Time Approach as a Sustainable Solution for Maritime Logistics in the Baltic Sea Region

This research provides an overview of the process and results of the development and implementation of the Port Activity Application. The aim of the application is to improve the coordination and information exchange mechanisms between the existing systems of ports and ships during piloting ordering process to ensure their effective interoperability, giving a better understanding of the impact of digitalization on the sustainability of seaports and maritime transport. To implement this concept, a system of step-by-step actions was developed, including determining the current situation, developing a business model and business logic for implementing an appropriate information and communication technology (ICT) solution, analysing the local government structure, analysing intermodal information exchange between stakeholders, developing and testing a new ICT tool. The ports of Rauma, Finland, and Gävle, Sweden, were used as pilot ports. As a result of the study, the main bottlenecks in the process of information exchange in ordering pilotage were identified. An improved business model and business logic, that allows the rational use of resources and reduces CO₂ emission and the pressure on the environment, was developed. The testbed was conducted in an environment of real port operations. Currently, the open access source code is available for use for maritime cluster actors

2021 January – CIRM – CIRM’s proposed PAS on Route Exchange (RTZ) approved

2020 December – Valenciaport Foundation – SEAPort Solutions implements the first PortCDM system in Latin America

2020 December – Port of Rauma – CB EfficientFlow

The port application developed for Port of Rauma in the CB EfficientFlow project is soon about to be expanded into a national system. The CB EfficientFlow project that will be wound up in November 2020 produced a port application that will next be further developed by Vessel Traffic Services Finland Oy (VTS Finland) and Unikie Oy in a continuation project designed to make the application available to all Finnish ports in the future.

2020 December – Maritime Executive – Book Review Maritime Informatics Approach to Leveraging Digitalization

2020 December – Smart4Sea – Shortlisted nominees announced for the 2021 SMART4SEA Awards