A vital variety of marine industry-focused tech startups from around the globe will showcase their options and platforms throughout Posidonia Exhibition 2022 to be held at Athens’ Metropolitan Expo Centre from 6-10 June.
On-line marketplaces designed to bridge the hole between marine service suppliers and ship house owners & managers and builders of revolutionary options promising to assist the {industry} obtain decarbonisation objectives and clear up nearly any difficulty they’re confronted with, will converge on the exhibition flooring of the world’s most prestigious delivery occasion to coach the {industry} on the newest technological developments and promote their options.
“Groundbreaking improvements backed up by cutting-edge applied sciences that are set to rework delivery shall be in full show in nice numbers this June because the race in the direction of the digitisation of the marine sector is effectively underway in a market which specialists estimate to be price $345bn by 2030,” stated Theodore Vokos, Managing Director, Posidonia Exhibitions S.A.
Market forces, reminiscent of elevated profitability within the container and dry bulk sectors, mixed with growing regulatory and social pressures to scale back carbon efficiencies are driving proprietor and operator curiosity within the accelerated adoption of latest applied sciences that enhance competitiveness and gas efficiencies.
Bid2board is only one of options to be showcased at Posidonia 2022. Leveraging the facility of information administration, the start-up helps ship managers get pleasure from time environment friendly, easy and arranged technical service association, and repair suppliers achieve elevated visibility and improved workflows from enquiry receipt till the execution of service.
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“The automated course of and information supplied through the bidding course of permits our clients to have insights on the competitors and enhance their affords whereas lowering the time spent in service preparations in a clear and managed method,” stated Andreas – Minos Zompanakis, Chief Govt Officer. “Posidonia is a good place for us to reveal our know-how in entrance of a focused and influential viewers from the worldwide maritime neighborhood.”
At Posidonia 2022 digital frontrunner Dualog is making ready to showcase its options with the aim of bringing ship and shore nearer. From being the very first enabler of maritime electronic mail messaging for fishing vessels working on the sting of the polar ice fields, Dualog now constantly develops new improvements at sea. “Our clients wish to allow the built-in ship of their enterprise technique” stated CCO Silje Moan, including that with greater than 5000 vessels in our consumer portfolio we plan to leverage our Posidonia presence to additional reinforce the fame because the creator of purpose-built electronic mail, information switch, web administration, and cybersecurity options for the delivery {industry}.
Transport 4.0 is the motto of KeeIX, one other exhibitor at Posidonia 2022, the place it plans to supply free demos to exhibitors who pre-book an appointment. The unbiased maritime tech group spun out of Lemissoler Group in 2020 on a quest to speed up the maritime {industry}’s adoption of digital applied sciences.
“Our manufacturers are designed for ashore and onboard use with a particular give attention to integrating AI with SaaS (Software program as a Service), fleet efficiency monitoring instruments, on-demand crew coaching and robotics. Our merchandise are aligned with the Decade of Motion to ship the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Growth which is because of rework the world,” stated Aristos Philis, Chief Govt Officer.
Sustainability has lengthy been on the radar of the maritime neighborhood spurred by the need to scale back the {industry}’s carbon footprint, and digital applied sciences can have a pivotal position in serving to the sector meet the IMO’s imminent milestone deadlines.
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The discount of maritime emissions is the main focus of one other Posidonia 2022 exhibitor, ChordX, which develops and supplies revolutionary options that assist ship house owners and operators attain the {industry}’s decarbonisation objective. The Singapore-based startup focuses on growing options that meet regulatory compliance reporting wants, reminiscent of with IMO DCS, EU MRV, CII, EEOI, and AER.
“As a key supporter of innovation and collaboration, we constantly search out methods the place we may help our clients obtain sustainable delivery,” stated Hong Tin Wei, Head of Partnerships & Finance. “Transport is among the oldest and most influential industries, and Posidonia is the house present of the Greek shipowning neighborhood with a legacy so long as the {industry} itself, and so we really feel that our presence there’ll assist bridge the hole between the {industry}’s previous and future.”
The ever-growing checklist of tech startups exhibiting at this summer season’s Posidonia contains Nereus Digital Bunkers, a Greek marine gas brokerage and know-how firm which has developed a marine gas procurement software program with built-in analytics aiming at digitizing the complicated gas procurement ecosystem finish to finish. The platform supplies related real-time port data and bunker indication costs in a transparent and concise method. The software program supplies options utilizing subtle analytics, oil pricing forecasting, and marine gas future curves that cowl and exceed the wants of the {industry} throughout the entire spectrum, from maritime gas suppliers to purchasers.
Founder Nikolas Gkikas believes that demand for inexperienced delivery options will enhance: “The digital processing of ship consumption information would be the foundation for decarbonisation. We’re maintaining with all the brand new laws and attempt to simplify the reporting procedures and are contemplating how we are going to cooperate with main firms that manufacture and monitor important engines in order that their information can enter immediately into the bunkering division of every delivery firm.”
One other debutant is MESPAS, a Swiss IT and engineering firm. Their technical ship administration software program allows the maritime {industry} to run its ships safely and effectively, leading to higher efficiency, decreased prices and decrease emissions. Their e-trading platform permits ships, administration places of work and suppliers to digitally place and obtain affords, orders and invoices.
MESPAS is the one firm within the maritime {industry} whose merchandise are supplied on cloud-based software program, with a novel library of hundreds of thousands of machine varieties, spare components and paperwork, all immediately obtainable to our clients to enhance their enterprise processes.
MESPAS just lately opened places of work in Athens and Iraklis Tarlas, Space Supervisor, Greece commented on their Posidonia participation: “We are going to current a brand new cellular app for preventive and corrective upkeep, a brand new product On the spot Purchase, in addition to different new software program options. We will even introduce our new subsidiary MESPAS Greece as a key hub for operations in Greece and past and goal to indicate the maritime neighborhood the true advantages of our sensible information and distinctive cloud-based software program options for ship house owners and managers.
The infinite checklist of tech startups collaborating at Posidonia this yr contains additionally Opsealog, a French firm specialised in efficiency administration, SOL-X, a number one Behavioral Based mostly Security firm initially from California and now primarily based in Singapore, Harbor Lab which was launched in March 2020 in Athens to supply software program for the disbursements departments for shipowners, administration firms and charterers and TICTAC Restoration, the primary Knowledge Restoration Firm in Greece working since 1999, which has saved the day for a lot of firms ever since.
Posidonia is organised below the auspices of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs & Insular Coverage, the Union of Greek Shipowners and the Hellenic Chamber of Transport and with the help of the Municipality of Piraeus and the Greek Transport Co-operation Committee.
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