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Smart Ports
Point of View
By Deloitte Port Services

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Smart Ports || Contents
Contents

Seaports are playing


catch-up with the
large transport &
logistics players when
it comes to developing
insight driven
solutions and IoT
applications.

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Smart Ports | Contents

Contents

Introduction 3
Need for Smart Ports is driven by
industry challenges 6
From digital to smart 10
Challenges ahead 16
About the authors 18

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Smart Ports | Introduction

Introduction
Currently, a tidal wave of technological
innovation & integration is pushing industries
and businesses to transform themselves in an
effort to become more data, and insight-driven.
The port industry is no exception.

Being part of both larger transport projects remain isolated. At the equipment and requiring different
and logistics (T&L) supply chains moment, ports in Western Europe types of products and services
and in itself being a cluster of are leading the pack in these creates a complicated environment
companies and businesses active in attempts. Although the Smart Port with multiple stakeholders. In
the T&L sector, ports are in a and IoT initiatives are addition to heterogeneity of data, a
unique position to fully grasp the commendable, there is still a long fear of transparency also remains a
potential generated by these new way to go before we can truly speak major issue. Ports are typically
high tech developments. of fully integrated ports that fully comprised of a cluster of competing
capitalize on the potential of IoT companies.
Within the wider T&L sector, and insight driven applications, in
companies have begun other words true “Smart Ports”. Thus, they are often very hesitant
experimenting with a range of to share information with a central
connectivity and data-enabled Becoming a Smart Port means authority that has the ability to
technologies. In aggregate, these developing solutions to address the aggregate and distribute the data
technologies form the Internet of current and future challenges faced amongst the stakeholders involved.
Things (IoT), which represents a by seaports including spatial In addition the interaction with the
convergence between the physical constraints, pressure on surrounding environment, both
and digital worlds, ultimately using productivity, fiscal limitations, ecological and social, adds an extra
data as a source of value. These IoT safety and security risks and layer of complexity and opportunity
technologies are being applied in sustainability. Today’s technological to Smart Port development.
diverse settings, from last mile and business model innovations can
transport optimization to warehouse be a driving force behind the Smart
and transport management Port.
systems. These developments have
been accelerated by decentralized However, determining which
networks that rely on the rapid technologies, how to implement
availability and analysis of them and the way in which they can
information. support the overall digital strategy
of the port remains the main
Seaports are playing catch-up with challenge.
the large T&L players when it comes
to developing insight driven It stands to reason that ports are
solutions and IoT applications. The faced with a myriad of issues both
current landscape offers some initial technical and strategic. The diverse
attempts at enhancing value nature of a port, with a wide variety Transport management systems are
propositions through technologies of companies and ecosystems, currently the number one IoT
application in ports.
like automation but overall these operating different kinds of

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Smart Ports | Introduction

One size fits all?


A fully developed smart port can use it gained insights for new business model generation.
However not all ports have the potential to integrate fully with their surroundings. Some
ports might lack infrastructure or physical integration with their surroundings or might
simply not have the scale required to perform the necessary investments. The
determination of which level of digitization that can be achieved should be performed on a
case to case basis.

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Smart Ports | Need for Smart Ports is driven by industry challenges

Need for Smart Ports


is driven by industry
challenges
Ports operate within a supply demand model
which is similar to the traditional T&L industry.
On the supply side the Port Authority provides
land for rent, services to clients as well as a
regulatory framework.

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Smart Ports | Need for Smart Ports is driven by industry challenges

The demand side is comprised of


“Smart ports are the NxtPort
both logistics supply (warehouses,
transport providers, terminal only ports that will
The port of Antwerp focuses its
operators) and demand (industrial
survive.” strategy of operational
sites, stowage companies, etc.) and
is therefore vastly different from the improvement on NxtPort, an
prof. dr. Olaf Merk
traditional T&L setup. information sharing platform for
companies such as BASF, MSC,
The three challenges can be
When assessing the availability of Katoen Natie, DP World and PSA.
countered by a set of solutions
technology in seaports, one must The objective is to become a self-
focused on automation and
understand the demand supply sustaining data-commercialization
information services, such as IoT.
balance. Seaports are often company that will gather,
‘landlords’, their business model centralize, store, analyse and
Operational excellence
revolves on supplying land and exchange data from a wide variety
The primary challenge driving IoT in
services to demand parties like of logistic actors. Other parties
seaports is operational excellence.
terminal operators and companies which can join the platform in due
From a supply side, namely port
acting in the T&L sector. Therefore, time include customs, food quality
authorities, capacity, efficiency,
there is an important distinction control, other governmental
reliability, support and costs are key
between technological innovation on agencies and IT application
drivers of value proposed to the
a terminal level and on a port level. developers.
clients (for e.g. terminal operators).
A full port based IoT implementation
On the demand side port users
should benefit both the port users
might want extra services like
as well as the port authority itself.
savings in time, security,
traceability, etc. Improving these
There are three main challenges
drivers for both sides is where the
driving the need for smart ports:
quick wins lie for ports. The
importance of this challenge is
1. Operational excellence
mirrored in the current IoT
2. Migrating activities (challenging
implementations in ports. Today’s
external market)
digital port solutions focus on
3. New business opportunities
efficiency improvements like traffic
management systems, improving
These challenges stem from the
flow throughout the port area,
tendency to measure success based
automation, reducing costs or digital
on traditional parameters like size
invoicing (customs) by improving
and throughput. However, Western
lead time.
ports are no longer only competing
for the number one spot in global
However, the need for IoT and
traffic figures. Ports in Western
smart ports is not only driven from
Europe are faced with a
a business perspective. Today we
concentration of ports in a
also see other trends, which will
stagnating mature market where
force ports to be proactive and
efficiency and protection of market
shape their environment instead of
share becomes central. This
reacting to market fluctuations.
necessitates a strategic shift, where
size is no longer the primary focus,
but rather efficiency and smarter
operations. It is no longer the
largest port that will survive but the
smartest port.

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Smart Ports | Need for Smart Ports is driven by industry challenges

Migrating activities Finally more indirect developments


The second challenge driving IoT in drive the need for Smart ports. Portbase and
seaports is migrating activities. The These include the increased focus automated
need to be smart is also driven by on sustainability, generated from a
challenging external market stronger interaction between port terminal
environments. Focusing on Europe, and city, by regulations based on
we observe a shift of spending sustainability and environmental Within the port of Rotterdam two
power away from the traditional targets and by social pressure. main technological feats have
Western regions, GDP growth is been accomplished, aimed at
stronger in Eastern Europe while New business opportunities locking cargo streams to the port.
cost of living is lower. Many of the The third challenge driving IoT in First, the nationwide Portbase
EDCs, traditionally located in seaports is the development of new initiative, in existence since 2009.
Northwest Europe, are moving their (data-driven) business models. IoT Portbase Port Community System
activities further east. This could applications provide more added is the digital connection to smart
result in a subsequent shift in local value than only updating existing Dutch ports. It is a combination of
shipping networks, putting added frameworks and streamlining an application layer, platform and
pressure on the ports which are established business models. In information database. The system
currently market leader (Rotterdam, order to maximize potential of promises concrete savings in time
Hamburg, Antwerp and insight driven solutions, port and money through bilateral
Amsterdam). authorities must rethink their connections and information
orthodoxies about value creation exchange.
On a global scale, shifting transport and value capture. The three
networks also endanger traditional strategies described by Porter, A second technical feature in the
port leaders. Developments like the differentiation, cost leadership, and port of Rotterdam is the state-of-
China- Africa route reducing focus are no longer mutually the-art fully automated deep sea
transhipment needs in Western exclusive but rather mutually terminal with automated guided
Europe, the growth of transhipment reinforcing. Next to the physical vehicles.
hubs in the Middle East, the one flows more emphasis will be put on
belt, one road project or even the (data-driven) models like value-
Arctic route might cause cargo added services, subscriptions, apps
shifts. This increases competition and anything as a service (XaaS).
and renders the value propositions
generated by IoT like cost
reductions and increased efficiency
ever more important.

Port apps
The port of Amsterdam for example, has launched multiple apps. The I Am Port app offers real time information on
ships locations and itineraries in the port. In addition you can find information on arrivals and departures, size, draft
and berth of each ship in the port.

A second app, the Port Data app shows the historical market shares of the throughput of cargo of eleven ports in the
Le Havre – Hamburg range in order to promote the idea of data sharing. Finally a third app allows you to tour the port
in a VR environment and aims to increase local support for the seaport.

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Smart Ports | From digital to smart

From digital to smart


Ports have gone through a structural and
functional evolution over the past decades.

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Smart Ports | From digital to smart

Simply put, there are three Moving towards a true Smart Port, parties meet in order to create
generations in port development: one which uses the full potential of value. In a platform world, this
an IoT network and smart data often means that the availability of
1. The first generation port is a solutions means that a port must be supply on one side of the market
loading and unloading port (until able to identify and take advantage affects the volume of transactions
the 1960s) of new business models within the on the other side of the market. In
2. The second generation port is an larger ecosystem. The nature of the the context of a port, the platform
industrial port (until 1980s) business makes this challenging, business performs a sidestep from
3. The third generation port is a since it requires integration between the traditional supply and demand
logistics / supply chain port (post the supply and demand side from balance mentioned above, where
1980s) the T&L sector, assimilating not only the port is a landowner and service
logistics firms and suppliers and provider for both incoming and
Each generation comes with a new distributors but also their clients like outgoing logistics. A port platform
function and focus. In the third industrial producers. model would be represented by
generation traditional views held three parties:
that a ports function was less Ports have already positioned
service and regulator oriented and themselves in the supply chain as a 1. Supply: this side of the market
more landlord and facilitator (or place for supply and demand to includes inbound logistics
cluster manager) focused. What we meet. In other words, they companies, ship owners,
see today with the increased need represent a physical manifestation terminal operators, maritime
for digital integration is that a port of a platform business model. service providers, etc.
is increasing its focus as a service 2. Platform: this is represented by
provider, albeit not in physical While it is likely common to think in the platform itself. The Port
services like towage and crane traditional strategic terms – those Authority provides the physical /
operations but more by becoming a examples from Porter mentioned business platform for supply
data service provider. This means before, the strategic application of and demand to meet.
that phase three is actually followed this business model goes beyond 3. Demand: this side of the market
by phase four, a digitalization of these perspectives. Ports must includes outbound logistics
port activities where new services focus on the ecosystem they have companies, manufacturers both
either replace or augment created, a platform - where two inside and outside the port, and
traditional port services. distributors seeking to meet
materials and products further
down the value chain.

Smart port is the fourth generation in port development.

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A true Smart Port will need to take While some of the same parties may
advantage of its position in the remain involved on the supply and
supply chain to add value with the demand side of the market, they
improved use of the data generated now increasingly interact digitally.
by the embedded IoT infrastructure. Furthermore, this new digital
While the data in itself does not add environment creates opportunities
value, aggregating different data for new, non-traditional parties (e.g.
sources and setting the right technology companies, individual
business rules for analysis can turn developers, etc.) to create
it into real insight. At Deloitte, we applications and solutions for
refer to this as the Information stakeholders targeted at improving
Value Loop, which is further performance or enhancing the
explained on the next page. All of business model of port stakeholders
this data can be gathered in a or the port itself.
digital IoT platform. It is at this
point that the physical (business) We observe six distinct data driven
platform and digital (IoT) platform opportunity models based on the
begin to merge. level of cooperation and the type of
data used.

Business model opportunity Example


1 Product innovators enhance their products and services Incorporating smart lighting networks in ports through
with data using data from motion sensors
2 Systems Innovators use data to integrate multiple Creating a transport management system using diverse
product types sources of data (weather sensors, motion sensors, etc.)
and applying insights to multiple devices like bridges,
quays, etc.
3 Data Providers gather and sell raw data without adding Data services like the Automatic identification System
too much value to it linked to GPS which offers insights in multiple aspects of
ship movements like origin, destination, cargo, etc.
4 Data Brokers gather and combine data from multiple Create market reports using multiple sources like order
sources, create additional value with analytics and sell books and scrapping forecasts
insights
5 Value Chain Integrators share data with system- Improve the internal port supply chain with data shared by
integrator partners to extend product offerings or the port users
reduce costs
6 Delivery Network Collaborators share data to drive Foster the marketplace and drive deal making to a new
deal making, foster marketplaces and enable advertising level through novel insight driven business models

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Information value loop


The suite of technologies that enables the Internet of Things promises to turn almost any object into a source
of information about that object. This creates both a new way to differentiate products and services and a new
source of value that can be managed in its own right. Realizing the IoT’s full potential motivates a framework
that captures the series and sequence of activities by which organizations create value from information: the
Information Value Loop

For information to complete the loop and create value, it passes through the loop’s stages, each enabled by
specific technologies. An act is monitored by a sensor that creates information, that information passes through
a network so that it can be communicated, and standards—be they technical, legal, regulatory, or social—allow
that information to be aggregated across time and space.

Augmented intelligence is a generic term meant to capture all manner of analytical support, collectively used to
analyze information. The loop is completed via augmented behavior technologies that either enable automated
autonomous action or shape human decisions in a manner leading to improved action.

Getting information around the Value Loop allows an organization to create value; how much value is created is
a function of the value drivers, which capture the characteristics of the information that makes its way around
the value loop. The drivers of information value can be captured and sorted into the three categories:
magnitude, risk, and time.

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Although most ports are aware of the need for


digital integration only few have been acting IoT in ports
proactively towards becoming a smart port.
Even the European ports with the highest level The port of Hamburg is one of the busiest ports of Europe and a
of IoT implementation today use the large driver for the regional economy with one-tenth of the total
technology primarily for adaptive analytics. area of Hamburg City. Furthermore, it employs over 260
The leap towards new businesses and new thousand people and generates over € 750 million in yearly tax
revenue streams remains unexplored at revenue for the city of Hamburg. The port has opted for an IoT
this point. platform to counter the expected rise in traffic and increasing
negative externalities (e.g. traffic congestion, pollution, and road
The development of a Smart Port should be safety) caused by the seaport’s activities. The platform is based
something that stems from a strategy. A port on three pillars, Smart Port infrastructure, intelligent traffic flows
should have a clear business case in mind and intelligent trade flows.
when planning its IoT implementation, because
the applications are endless and value can be The port of Hamburg works with a variety of local, regional and
created in a myriad of different improvements. national partners on the project. These partners include the city
This also means that a Smart Port is not of Hamburg, which is moving to the smart city model by
necessarily the final step in port development. implementing e.g. smart lighting, bridges, parking lots, etc., the
Within a platform world driven by insights state of Hamburg as well as the Federal Ministry of Transport.
cooperation increases the value proposition so Building and Urban Development also play a pivotal role through
one could argue that the next phase would be the maintenance and expansion of inland transport
a Smart Port network, where different infrastructure. On the private side Hamburg is teaming with IT
platforms connect and share information solutions providers.
across geographical borders.

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Smart Ports | Challenges ahead

Challenges ahead
Even though some ports today are starting to
come to terms with the importance and need for
digitalization and IoT, there is still a long road
ahead to get to relatively mature Smart
Port concepts.

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Smart Ports | Challenges ahead

First of all the real question remains The need for cooperation between
what the port wants to achieve by ports, in order to truly share data
becoming smart – in other words and insights is something that is
what is the strategic imperative. unexplored. This third challenge,
This strategic goal should go beyond driven by a certain form of
mere efficiency improvements and protectionism of the port authorities
focus on a holistic, long term on their own data is a major hurdle
strategy, where insights are distilled in the development of a true Smart
from smart applications enabling a Port strategy.
transition towards an insight driven
company. Finally the dichotomy between the
port authority and terminal operator
This challenge is amplified by the ads a level of complexity.
large variety that exists between Operational implementations cannot
ports for e.g. a pure bulk port be forced by the port authority on
versus a container port. Defining terminal level. This could create a
where the quick wins and long term port with a highly integrated
added value lie must be done in infrastructure network but with
cooperation with the respective lacking superstructure integration.
clients.
The role of the port authority within
A second challenge is the increased a Smart Port strategy includes
focus on cyber security. Companies development and facilitation for its
active in the ports industry, are users. The final level of integration
responsible not just for customer will be the result of the stakeholder
data (which is already extremely management and determination
valuable), but for physical goods. In shown by the port authority. The
addition many of the stored goods issues drivers and challenges above
can be regarded as strategic help port authorities to determine
stockpiles for the countries and where to play and find the right
regions increasing the need for a strategy to win. It is our strong
robust security system. Right now belief that becoming a Smart Port,
port security is limited to the global driven by smart technology like IoT
ISPS code, which focusses on is a fundamental part of every
physical threats. Port authority seaport game plan.
ecosystems must be aware that the
digital threat is just as important,
certainly if ports continue on their
path towards further digitalization.

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Smart Ports | About the authors

About the authors

Sjors Berns is a senior manager at Rob Dickson is a Senior Consultant


Deloitte Financial Advisory Services in Deloitte Consulting’s Technology
in the Netherlands and works in the practice and part of the Dutch High
service line Real Estate & Tech Competence Center (HTCC).
Partnerships. He primarily works in Rob focuses primarily on product
the corporate real estate industry development, Internet of Things
and Sjors leads the Deloitte Port (IoT) and Industry 4.0, data-
Services group in the Netherlands. enabled business models and
Sjors is an experienced consultant business platforms.
for port operators and authorities.

Indra Vonck is a consultant at Jochem Dragt is a director at


Deloitte Financial Advisory Services Monitor Deloitte Consulting and
in the Netherlands and works in the works in the Strategy service line of
service line Real Estate Advisory. He Deloitte's Strategy and Operations
primarily works in the corporate real practice in the Netherlands. He is
estate industry with a specific focus part of Deloitte’s Maritime Cluster
on seaport and maritime and has worked extensively for
development. Indra recently various shipping and ports clients,
completed his PhD on Port next to clients in consumer
Resilience and Port Development. business.
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