We are making great strides towards a sustainable future. In the meantime, we are also working on boosting digitalisation. By having the digital and sustainability transitions go hand in hand, our position is stronger. We call this power pair the twin transition. This double transition approach acknowledges the huge, as yet largely unexploited, potential of technology and data to achieve sustainability goals. Precisely thanks to these innovative technologies and smart use of data, we will be capable of accelerating the energy transition and facilitating circularity. Below, we highlight a number of examples where we deploy digitalisation to facilitate the sustainability transition.
Step 6
Digitalisation
Distro Energy is a Port of Rotterdam Authority scale-up. It has developed an intelligent and fully automated trading platform with which companies can trade locally any energy they have generated and optimise its use. The first successful application is in the Innovation Dock in the port of Rotterdam. In the coming period, the trading platform will be mainly used by companies in the Rotterdam industry and port cluster.
Distro Energy
Routescanner responds to the question of how a shipper or freight forwarder can get their container from A to B as fast and as sustainably as possible. It's the Google Maps for container transport, with as most important addition that shippers and freight forwarders can gain insight into how sustainable the route is. That might mean that on the basis of those insights, a shipper or freight forwarder chooses a connection by inland vessel or train, or for a route that does not go via Rotterdam. Routescanner is not aimed at growth of the Port or Rotterdam. With Routescanner, we want to promote worldwide efficiency and sustainability.
Routescanner
We mentioned the Green & Digital Corridor between Rotterdam and Singapore earlier. That might be one of the prime examples of a twin transition. In short: the Port of Rotterdam Authority involves broad coalitions in the setting up of green and digital corridors in order to realise a CO₂-neutral and digital transport chain on specific routes, together with other ports and parties. By safely sharing data, standards and electronic documents digitally with each other, we can already improve the efficiency and sustainability of shipping in the short term.
Digital Corridors
Examples of other smart digital projects that support the sustainability transition are:
Digital trading routes are about eliminating paper documents and working data-driven. This not only enables smooth operations and transport of freight, it also gives insight into the current CO₂ emissions and ways of considerably reducing them.
Paperless trading route
One example of a project in which digitalisation plays a key role in ensuring that there is a boost in efficiency is Port Call Optimisation. The goal is to have the process of a ship's visit run as efficiently as possible. From the moment the vessel departs from the previous port of call, the arrival in the port of Rotterdam, the completion of the work and subsequent departure from the berth. The Port of Rotterdam Authority is therefore joining shipping and ports in committing to shared standards and the improvement of the quality and availability of data of vessels and ports of call.
This will reduce emissions from vessels in transit, in and around ports, terminals and port cities and at the same time, ensure more safety, compliance with the regulations, a cleaner environment and lower costs for shipping lines, shippers, terminals and ports.
Port Call Optimisation
We are making great strides towards a sustainable future. In the meantime, we are also working on boosting digitalisation. By having the digital and sustainability transitions go hand in hand, our position is stronger. We call this power pair the twin transition. This double transition approach acknowledges the huge, as yet largely unexploited, potential of technology and data to achieve sustainability goals. Precisely thanks to these innovative technologies and smart use of data, we will be capable of accelerating the energy transition and facilitating circularity. Below, we highlight a number of examples where we deploy digitalisation to facilitate the sustainability transition.
Step 6
Digitalisation
Routescanner responds to the question of how a shipper or freight forwarder can get their container from A to B as fast and as sustainably as possible. It's the Google Maps for container transport, with as most important addition that shippers and freight forwarders can gain insight into how sustainable the route is. That might mean that on the basis of those insights, a shipper or freight forwarder chooses a connection by inland vessel or train, or for a route that does not go via Rotterdam. Routescanner is not aimed at growth of the Port or Rotterdam. With Routescanner, we want to promote worldwide efficiency and sustainability.
Routescanner
We mentioned the Green & Digital Corridor between Rotterdam and Singapore earlier. That might be one of the prime examples of a twin transition. In short: the Port of Rotterdam Authority involves broad coalitions in the setting up of green and digital corridors in order to realise a CO₂-neutral and digital transport chain on specific routes, together with other ports and parties. By safely sharing data, standards and electronic documents digitally with each other, we can already improve the efficiency and sustainability of shipping in the short term.
Digital Corridors
Examples of other smart digital projects that support the sustainability transition are:
Distro Energy is a Port of Rotterdam Authority scale-up. It has developed an intelligent and fully automated trading platform with which companies can trade locally any energy they have generated and optimise its use. The first successful application is in the Innovation Dock in the port of Rotterdam. In the coming period, the trading platform will be mainly used by companies in the Rotterdam industry and port cluster.
Distro Energy
One example of a project in which digitalisation plays a key role in ensuring that there is a boost in efficiency is Port Call Optimisation. The goal is to have the process of a ship's visit run as efficiently as possible. From the moment the vessel departs from the previous port of call, the arrival in the port of Rotterdam, the completion of the work and subsequent departure from the berth. The Port of Rotterdam Authority is therefore joining shipping and ports in committing to shared standards and the improvement of the quality and availability of data of vessels and ports of call.
This will reduce emissions from vessels in transit, in and around ports, terminals and port cities and at the same time, ensure more safety, compliance with the regulations, a cleaner environment and lower costs for shipping lines, shippers, terminals and ports.
Digital trading routes are about eliminating paper documents and working data-driven. This not only enables smooth operations and transport of freight, it also gives insight into the current CO₂ emissions and ways of considerably reducing them.