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Advancing Seaport Efficiencies through Technology & Innovation
For those of us old enough to remember the days when communications meant picking up a telephone and spinning its rotary dial or writing a letter on a Royal manual typewriter and sending it off in an envelope with a well-licked 13-cent stamp, today's technology can sometimes seem a bit intimidating.
But, more so, innovations are inspiring and they are leading the way for those of us in publishing, port management and virtually every other discipline to levels of achievement we never would have thought possible a few short decades ago. View PDF Version
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Letter from Ray Venturino
For those of us old enough to remember the days when communications meant picking up a telephone and spinning its rotary dial or writing a letter on a Royal manual typewriter and sending it off in an envelope with a well-licked 13-cent stamp, today's technology can sometimes seem a bit intimidating.
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Challenges spark innovation, thereby enhancing efficiency
In today's challenging economic environment, "running a tight ship" -- or the marine terminal equivalent -- is crucial as ports strive to be competitive and fulfill their promise of delivering prosperity. With the slowdown in trade and the continued need for infrastructure, environmental and security investments, ports are embracing technology and innovation to enhance operating efficiencies and be capable of competing for -- and handling -- new business when the global economic engine is revving again.
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Seaports achieve success via collaborative efforts
For the better part of the past year, ports around the world have struggled with unprecedented economic issues that have forced us to confront, head-on, the universal challenges of reduced revenues, tight budgets and the tough, unavoidable decisions that accompany those situations.
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Capital projects must have 'green' benefits
Over the past several years, the American Association of Port Authorities has been focusing much of its efforts on advocating for programs and policies that would facilitate the movement of goods by seeking increased funding for transportation infrastructure and marine highways. These efforts were designed to minimize congestion and allow our seaports to serve as our nation's economic engines.
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Lean Enterprise model supplies strategic shift
Most recently, leaders of seaports have been focusing on the challenges of operating efficiently during an economic downturn, while, in the years leading up to the present global financial struggles, they searched for ways to operate more efficiently with existing capacity during a period of record growth.
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Sustainability strategy encourages innovation
When Port of Seattle Chief Executive Officer Tay Yoshitani announced in 2008 that the Port of Seattle would be the "cleanest, greenest, most energy-efficient in the United States," we knew we had a unique opportunity to imagine a new future for our industry -- one in which environmental sustainability is valued as much as price and reliability.
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Pier project digs deep for 'green' solutions
As part of its long-term strategic plan to support large-scale containerships, the Port of Long Beach initiated the Pier G Berth G232 wharf and backlands redevelopment project to serve ships capable of holding the equivalent of more than 8,000 twenty-foot-long containers.
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Risk management impacts all areas of port operations
What keeps you up at night? You wake up at night in a cold sweat! In your dream (or nightmare), you are on the witness stand in front of the judge, jury and, of course, the local media, having to answer questions as to why you approved a lease agreement that has now caused a class-action lawsuit against the port for $14 million...
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Technology critical to trucks program
In spring 2007, the Southern California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach inaugurated a major change in the U.S. goods movement industry when they embraced a Clean Trucks Program as part of a greater effort to reduce pollution by 80 percent in the area of the ports. Since 36 percent of U.S. foreign commerce transits these two ports, the implications were far-reaching and profound.
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How 'Tweet' it is: High-tech tools help ports communicate
Social media -- Web-based networks that facilitate a two-way flow of information with short e-mails, text messages and video clips -- represent an increasingly important communications tool that allows the Port of Long Beach to interact with our many diverse stakeholders in an informal, immediate and personal way. We encourage users to attend events, learn about new innovations and become engaged with the port community.
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Innovative barge plies 'blue highway'
Through use of an innovatively converted barge, hundreds of thousands of metric tons of aluminum ingots are traveling the "blue highway" of the St. Lawrence Seaway rather than moving on trucks along the sole roadway link of Sept-Íles, Québec.
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Improvements made without disruption
Implementing technology can be complicated enough without considering the importance of ensuring that ongoing operations of port facilities proceed without disruption. With its Talleyrand Marine Terminal Berth 3 rehabilitation project, the Jacksonville Port Authority responded to this dual challenge, deploying an innovative technical solution while maintaining movement of vessels and the automobiles they import at a busy roll-on/roll-off berth.
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Latin American ports implement technology
In Latin America, where some ports have had a 30-year backlog in use of technology compared to vanguard facilities in Europe, Asia and the United States, modernization projects in countries such as Brazil, Colombia, Chile and Peru today seek implementation of leading-edge innovations that better position these ports in the global market.
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Data automation provides benefits
On the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean, the St. Lucia Air & Sea Ports Authority, charged with the responsibility for ports of entry that includes two airports, two seaports and three marinas, has consistently embraced use of technology to improve operations. In 2007, SLASPA embarked on a major exercise toward improving the efficiency of its seaport operations by using automation to streamline core business processes and procedures.
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