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Port Collaborative Decision Making

Port Collaborative Decision Making (PortCDM): An enabler for Port Call Optimization empowered by international harmonization

By
Mikael Lind, Michael Bergmann, Sandra Haraldson, Richard T. Watson, 2, Jin Park, José Gimenez, Trond Andersen, RISE Viktoria, Sweden, University of Georgia, USA, SNPO/KRISO, South Korea, Valenciaport Foundation, Spain, Port of Stavanger, Norway

The shipping industry seeks increased efficiency in Port Operations

The maritime sector seeks increased efficiency in moving goods and passengers from berth- to-berth, because of the intense competition between the various players, such as shipping companies, ports, global port operators, and hinterland operators. As a transport sector, the maritime industry also competes with options such as trucking and railway. However, because it is a self-organizing ecosystem of many players, the sector lacks the overall ability to optimize its operation. The risk of system detrimental sub-optimization is ever present when each independent player acts in its self-interest. Thus, there needs to be agreement that some actors might have less than optimal operations in order in order to ensure that the port ecosystem as an entity is operating optimally.

In most ports, the principle of first come – first served is standard practice, causing unnecessary inefficiencies and putting unnecessary externalities like high levels of pollution and Greenhouse gas emissions. This is often the result of poor integration between contractual issues, legal constraints, and local practices resulting from decades of legacy customs and culture. Digitization of the maritime sector, e-navigation efforts, and integration of sea transport into a holistic transport system, call for enhanced harmonization on a global scale so that the some of the inherent issues of a self-organizing ecosystem are resolved to improve sector efficiency.

Sea operations and seaport operations need to be integrated

Lately, a lot of attention has been paid towards port call optimization as an expression of the need to integrate sea and port operations. Consequently, this also means that port call optimization needs to be integrated with inbound and outbound logistics. Ports are complex operation as they are hubs often seen as single actor serving sea and land transport. As the same time, they consist of multiple actors who must act cooperatively to be an effective hub.

When visiting a port, shipping companies and hinterland operators are episodically tightly coupled with a range of port facilities. They must participate in closely coordinating both external and internal processes. In the following figure, the integration of internal and external collaborative processes associated with the various episodes of tight coupling of port call optimization are elaborated.

Figure: Two related collaborative processes in port call optimization

PortCDM for enhanced collaborative for port call optimization

To manage the complexities of integrated performance of internal and external collaboration, the PortCDM concept was introduced as a concept of Sea Traffic Management. It facilitates collaboration to enable the optimal realization of port visits by flexibly balancing capacity utilization and turn-around time to minimize port visit disruptions.

PortCDM was inspired by the aviation sector, in which considerable gains have been achieved by the European aviation system, such as shorter flight times, a reduced environmental footprint, and enhanced precision in arrival and departure times. PortCDM supports the port call optimization process by promoting:
– The extension of planning horizons
– The sharing of the timing of future events for the coordination of the port call process
– The combination of multiple sources of data for enhanced predictability
Machine-2-machine connectivity for instant sharing of data from the source based on agreed message formats and interfaces for digital collaboration
– Shared situational awareness by sharing data on the progress of a port call among internal and external involved actors
– Acknowledgement of discrepancies in the port call process
It also takes into account existing standards and collaboration platforms and ensured compatibility as needed.

Within PortCDM, port call coordination concerns internal collaboration within the port to enable synchronization among the required actors. Whereas, port call synchronization concerns external collaboration with a port’s environment. Data sharing enables coordination and transparency by established collaboration principles that internally should result in the alignment of operations among port call actors operations and externally in the alignment of operations performed by a port and its external actors.

A port’s organizational role varies depending on whether it is regarded from the inside or outside. Externally, a port is a hub acting on behalf of all port actors. Internally, each port actor is an agent acting on behalf of the port and its interests. Further, this means that each role needs to distinguish between when communication is part of an internal or external collaboration.

Optimal realization of port visits needs two practices to become more integrated than today; the practices of sea operations and port operations. This means elaborating on a precise conception of data sharing within and between the two practices, as follows:

  • Port call coordination; The sum of each port call actor’s actions to align their operations in relation to other actors’ for a holistic coordination of the port call process as the common object of interest. This concerns internal coordination among involved port call actors.
  • Port call synchronization; The continuous process of coordinating a ship’s approach, its previous and next ports’ operations, hinterland transport operators plans, and the progress of a port call. This concerns external coordination among actors involved in the sea transport chain berth-2-berth. As there are significant differences between ship-2-terminal (port) synchronization, port-2-port synchronization, and port-2- hinterland synchronization, driven by different logics, similarities and differences need to be taken into account.
  • Port call optimization; The process of making the port call process as efficient as possible according to the needs of the involved actors in the sea transport value chain as part of the larger transportation system.
  • Port collaborative decision making (PortCDM); The concept for facilitating the process of collaborative dynamics for port call coordination (internal collaboration) and port call synchronization (external collaboration)

A port call is concerned with a physical dimension (the ship arriving at the port and being served) as well as of a planning dimension (the ship and the port’s planning for its visit). The time span between when the physical port call occurs and when the planning is initiated can be as separated by as much as two years.

Towards international harmonization

In order to support the process of international harmonization, there is a need for a global governance structures for PortCDM. Derived from the Sea Traffic Management Project, the international PortCDM Council has also been established and is comprised of members of maritime associations, maritime authorities, and port authorities for the purpose of global governance of the PortCDM concept as well as providing recommendations for regional and local implementations.
Different actors in the sea transport value chain now aspire for PortCDM to be extended to internationally harmonize sea transport as part of a holistic transport system. To be emphasised; the introduction of PortCDM does not mean that there is a need to substitute the installed base to become PortCDM compliant. It is rather a question of acknowledging which collaborative aspects of a technical and procedural character that the port builds upon as a driver for making the port part of a maritime practice built upon collaboration.

A growing concern, not to be ignored, is cyber security, authentication and data security, including access control of to be shared data. The PortCDM concept is embedded in the IMO e-Navigation initiative and is utilizing the Maritime Connectivity Platform (MCP) as currently developed and tested worldwide. This allows the integration of the PortCDM concepts described above in the wider context of maritime digitization.

Self-organization is an essential characteristic of maritime transport. The implementation of PortCDM through standardized messages and collaboration principles requires a cooperative ecosystem environment. The self-interest of each of the parties will often be best served by recognizing that a system is more than the sum of its parts. For example, a ship is a keystone actor in a port call and optimizing a turnaround might result in some sub- optimal outcomes for other players. However, optimizing turnarounds overall makes a port more attractive and can generate more visits and business expands for all players. In a multiplayer environment, the team has to identify a singular optimization goal so that will ultimately generate more for everyone.

Extending PortCDM to optimize operations adds another data dimension. Collaboration requires data sharing, but optimization requires data analysis. It requires predictive analytics to determine when events are likely to occur and prescriptive analytics to specify the optimal resource allocations to achieve goals. As a result, the level of data sharing will likely have to increase to accommodate data analytics. Clearly, the various members will have to be convinced that it is in their long-term interests to deepen the level of data sharing to support analytics. Thus, it is essential that they recognize that a self-organizing ecosystem can achieve system effects (the total is more than the sum of the parts) by higher levels of collaboration.

                  

For more information, contact:

Mikael Lind, Activity Leader PortCDM testbeds, RISE Viktoria +46 705 66 40 97 or Mikael.Lind@ri.se Sandra Haraldson, Activity Leader PortCDM testbeds, RISE Viktoria, +46 707 61 88 14 or
Sandra.Haraldson@ri.se
Ulf Siwe, Communications Manager, Swedish Maritime Administration +46 10 478 56 29, or
Ulf.Siwe@sjofartsverket.se

www.stmvalidation.eu
STM connects and updates the maritime world in real time with efficient information exchange. In the 60s the standardised container revolutionised shipping. The next revolution is the containerisation of information – creating a safer, more efficient and environmentally friendly maritime sector.

]]> Enabling Effective Port Resource Management https://marine-fields.com/enabling-effective-port-resource-management/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:26:50 +0000 https://ecstatic-dewdney.217-154-115-37.plesk.page/?p=479

Enabling Effective Port Resource Management

Enabling Effective Port Resource Management:
Integrating Systems of Production Data Streams

By
Mikael Lind, Michael Bergmann, Sandra Haraldson, Richard T. Watson, Jin Park, José Gimenez, Trond Andersen, RISE Viktoria, Sweden, University of Georgia, USA, SNPO/KRISO, South Korea, Valenciaport Foundation, Spain, Port of Stavanger, Norway

Effective resource planning requires knowing other actors’ plans and progress

Each actor in a self-organizing ecosystem provides value to the larger value network, such as the transport of a consumer product from the warehouse to the pick-up point, and the pick-up point’s actions to inform and hand-over an arrived product. In businesses today, high demands are placed upon each participating value provider to ensure a high- degree of capacity utilization. For providers in a self-organizing ecosystem to pursue optimization, they need to be informed about related actors planned actions and outcomes. Ideally, the sum of all optimization decision pursued by each actor in the value chain should contribute to ecosystem optimization, but this is not always the case.
Within the transport sector, the spatial and temporal dimensions need to be captured for planned and actual physical movements and service provisioning. By knowing when, where, and what for each object, actors are better informed to coordinate related operations.
The scope of Sea Traffic Management (STM) is berth-to-berth. This means that actors in the whole chain of activities from the berth at the point of origin, the sea voyage, and the berth at the point of destination should also be part of an information chain. For a port to plan its operations with high precision, it needs to be informed about the plans and progress at the previous port, the sea passage, and hinterland transport serving the port. Different elements of STM define service domains to promote (digital) service distribution in the berth-to-berth sea transports. These concepts are Voyage Management, Flow Management, and Port Collaborative Decision Making (PortCDM), which are supported by SeaSWIM as the digital infrastructure providing inter-operability within and between the service domains.

Different types of coordination

A core goal of STM is to minimize the resources required to steam between two ports, while maximizing the utilization of resources within a port, with increased safety. For shipping companies, the turnaround process at a port should be is as expeditious as possible to enable high utilization of the ship in their fleets. The PortCDM concept builds upon two principles of coordination to provide a basis for enabling just-in-time operations and optimal resource utilization:

• Minimal state-driven coordination in which involved actors share critical spatial- temporal data and state data about the time and location of a state change to allow others to coordinate their actions in relation to these plans. As only critical data are shared, a majority of the states in the port call process are black-boxed and just a few of them are shared among actors.

• Full state-driven coordination in which the actors share spatial-temporal and process data about the duration and location of all substantive port visit processes. All states, except the most minor, of a port call process are shared among involved actors.

Minimal state driven coordination is a first step towards enabling port actors to align their actions in relation to a common goal. It provides an entry point to improved coordination, and also should provide a motivation to full state coordination because of the benefits.

Port planning builds upon data produced by different systems of production

The successful operation of a port requires its independent parties to share data to ensure efficient episodic tight coupling, such as when a tug aids in berthing a ship. PortCDM concentrates on data sharing capability whereby parties shared data necessary for planning and executing a ship’s visit to a port. To move beyond an operational perspective to long-term resource management, a greater level of data exchange is required. Referring to the different coordination principles above, the ideal effective resource management builds upon full state-driven coordination, but an important first step is to achieve minimal state-driven coordination.

A port and its independent parties have a system of production for fulfilling its most important tasks, where a system of production is a repetitive sequence of coordinated actions that might be divided among actors to achieve a goal. We can think of a ship’s visit as a system of production with each of the actors performing its specific task, but we also need to recognize that each of the parties has a separate system of production (e.g., the terminal) and an associated separate system of record. For PortCDM, two aspects are currently important:

1. Thesharingofaccurateanddetailedreal-timedata
2. Alignment of each actor’s intention to enable effective and efficient episodic tight coupling in a timely manner

These two ingredients create a “system” of data sharing, giving rise to well-coordinated port call processes based on high degrees of predictability and situational awareness. PortCDM thus brings collaborative dimensions into port call coordination (port internal collaboration) and port call synchronization (port external collaboration) into focus. This does not mean that the port call process is optimized, but it does mean that some, though incomplete, data are available for others to start an optimization process for port calls and other operational services.

PortCDM creates a system of records, based on a port’s actors’ systems of production, which can fuel data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

PortCDM (see figure to the left) is positioned as a concept that through its recommended message format stresses the importance of running the production system without any misunderstandings on key episodes (such as the estimated time of arrival), but also as a creator of a system of records.

For example, planning a port call cannot solely rely on the situation in the port. It builds upon insights on the status of related actors, such as the previous port, and movement of ships, and hinterland transports. Today, the system of record is often incomplete and thus not well-suited for learning through data analytics.

An implemented system building upon PortCDM according to its objectives can address this issue. It will require standardized message formats and interfaces for a port’s systems of production. In this way, the system building upon PortCDM, would enable each actor to plan what resources need to be available in different future coupling episodes contributing to an optimized port. The concept of PortCDM’s current system of record reveals what operations were planned for and conducted during in a visit, but it has no details of what resources in total were available at the time of the visit or the pattern of resource usage over an extended period. This requires additional details of resource utilization to be aligned with PortCDM.

Port call processes build upon patterns of activities among actors. There are at least three simultaneous ecosystem-oriented systems of production processes that needs to be inter-lined:

1. Sailing ships berth-to-berth
2. Serving ships according to their needs to realize the purpose of call
3. Bringing goods from a hinterland hub to the terminal, or vice versa.

In the figure to the left, these systems of production are depicted. The system of records revealing the progress of actions in the systems of production is a complementary product of the actions pursued in the systems of production.

A port’s operations rely on insights from all these three production processes since each production process is dependent on consuming data from all three systems of records and about the progress in other production processes. PortCDM must provide the logic for identifying data sharing needs for each situation by 1) providing situational awareness and 2) aligning different actors by revealing diversities and unrealities in their timing of episodic tight coupling and ensuring that essential data for the coordination of a port call are shared in a timely manner.

PortCDM works well within the current resource mix, but the prime goal of minimizing ship turnaround is limited by insufficient data resources. It is therefore necessary that PortCDM works in alignment with integrating additional types of data from systems of production to ensure a port has the right long-term mix of resources to minimize ship turnaround. For example, data analytics might reveal that the presence of an additional pilot would over a year reduced ship turnaround by 10% due to the ability to conduct more parallel assignments of pilotage and thereby avoiding unnecessary waiting times.

Planning for one visit can improve efficiency, as PortCDM has shown, and planning for hundreds of visits will give efficiency another major boost.

Some concluding remarks

The two principles of coordination elaborated in this note can support actors to optimize their resource utilization. In the first case, the minimal state-driven coordination, each actor’s consecutive progress of the port call process is not shared with other actors, but foundations are created for each actor to optimize its contribution related to a desired outcome (e.g., when a ship will depart). In the second case, the full state-driven coordination, sharing data, from the systems of records of the respective production systems should enable each actor to more precisely align their operations, such as in sequence or parallel, in relation to those of others. Naturally, such tight alignment is dependent on the timely sharing of accurate and relevant data. Both principles of coordination, whereas minimal state-driven coordination is the foundation for full state- driven coordination, is the basis for enhanced collaboration and data sharing within the port environment providing stakeholders foundations for optimized operations.

Traditionally, it has been the captain’s (and the shipping company’s) responsibility to provide estimates on arrival to berth (ETA berth) and departure from berth (ETD berth), while it is the terminal’s responsibility to provide the captain with estimates and actuals on ready-to-sail (RTS). Other operations need to be related to these event times. Use of a full state-driven approach would, however, also provide the captain with insights on the preparations and possible outcomes of all services expected to be provided during a port visit.

STM adopt two perspectives; ship-centric view and port-centric view. This means that the port, with its actors, could also use the shared systems of records from all four arenas of collaboration (ship-2-port, port-2-port, port internal, port-2-hinterland) to balance its resource utilization to serve ships in a coordinated and optimized way and still keeping some flexibility for managing disruptions.

The current and future performance of a self-organizing ecosystem is determined by a holistic efficiency-oriented analysis of the many episodic tightly couplings of its various actors. The two coordination principles discussed in this concept note provide insights on the data required to support both short- and long-term ecosystem efficiency gains. Realization, however, will require actors to willingly share key data, some of which they might regard as essential to their competitiveness, to achieve a greater good benefitting all actors. In today’s connected world, ecosystem data sharing provides a path to higher capital productivity and business opportunities.

                  

For more information, contact:

Mikael Lind, Activity Leader PortCDM testbeds, RISE Viktoria +46 705 66 40 97 or Mikael.Lind@ri.se Sandra Haraldson, Activity Leader PortCDM testbeds, RISE Viktoria, +46 707 61 88 14 or
Sandra.Haraldson@ri.se
Ulf Siwe, Communications Manager, Swedish Maritime Administration +46 10 478 56 29, or
Ulf.Siwe@sjofartsverket.se
www.stmvalidation.eu
STM connects and updates the maritime world in real time with efficient information exchange. In the 60s the standardised container revolutionised shipping. The next revolution is the containerisation of information – creating a safer, more efficient and environmentally friendly maritime sector.

]]> MarineFields has been shortlisted for the SMART4SEA E-Navigation Award https://marine-fields.com/marinefields-has-been-shortlisted-for-the-smart4sea-e-navigation-award/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:23:40 +0000 https://ecstatic-dewdney.217-154-115-37.plesk.page/?p=475

MarineFields has been shortlisted for the SMART4SEA E-Navigation Award

We are proud to have been shortlisted for the SMART4SEA E-Navigation Award. If you would like to show your support you can also Vote Here.

]]> Ports of the Future: Bringing Emissions in Port Visits to a Minimum by Collaboration and Digital Data Sharing https://marine-fields.com/ports-of-the-future-bringing-emissions-in-port-visits-to-a-minimum-by-collaboration-and-digital-data-sharing/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:22:36 +0000 https://ecstatic-dewdney.217-154-115-37.plesk.page/?p=470

Ports of the Future: Bringing Emissions in Port Visits to a Minimum by Collaboration and Digital Data Sharing

Ports of the Future: Bringing Emissions in Port Visits to a Minimum by Collaboration and Digital Data Sharing

Improving port performance is a key factor in reducing emissions from shipping. Increased utilisation of port infrastructures by ships provides incentives for shipping companies and ports to take joint actions for reducing their carbon footprint. Ports and ships are still not totally ‘in-sync’ resulting in unnecessary waiting times and/or unnecessary movements. Different initiatives associated to port call coordination/synchronization/optimization do address the potential in aligning the ships arrival and departure with the port’s capabilities to serve the ship for the reduction of waiting times and emissions. The smart port of the future needs to be based on synchronization capabilities to enable sustainable shipping. To achieve substantial environmental effects, it is, however, a need for joining forces among the different initiatives that is brought as tools to be used by maritime transport producers. In this article, numerous initiatives are identified, and an approach for bringing those together, as an enabler for gaining substantial environmental effects putting the smart port of the future at the core.

by Chrysostomou, A; Lind, M; Bergmann, M

Read the complete paper here

]]> MarineFields Holding wins the SMART4SEA E-Navigation Award https://marine-fields.com/marinefields-holding-wins-the-smart4sea-e-navigation-award/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:15:43 +0000 https://ecstatic-dewdney.217-154-115-37.plesk.page/?p=463

MarineFields Holding wins the SMART4SEA E-Navigation Award

We are truly honoured to have won the SMART4SEA E-Navigation Award. MarineFields Holding would like to thank everyone who voted and supported our nomination.

The recognition received proves the innovators of our platform Perseus and those who made the platform a reality, right.

In an era of digitalization & connectivity our mission is to provide one interface for instant data sharing between all connected actors, enhance digital collaboration between shipping companies, ports & terminals.

“The concept of live data sharing becomes a necessity. MarineFields created its data sharing platform Perseus in order to provide the shipping industry with an unparalleled technology” said our CEO Andreas Chrysostomou.

We will continue to innovate in order to provide the shipping industry with an increased efficiency in port operations.

]]> Increasing the utilization of the ship and port infrastructure by Perseus https://marine-fields.com/increasing-the-utilization-of-the-ship-and-port-infrastructure-by-perseus/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:12:55 +0000 https://ecstatic-dewdney.217-154-115-37.plesk.page/?p=457

Increasing the utilization of the ship and port infrastructure by Perseus

In recent years a lot of discussion takes place about port call synchronisation, a challenge that involves mainly two parties the port and the ship.  That are driven by different logics. A shipping companies’ fleet visit many ports while a port is visited by many ships of different trades pursued by different shipping companies.[1] Although, this might seem very similar the priorities from each end are totally different even if both perspectives build upon the same information pieces forming holistic structures of situational awareness.

It is also to be acknowledged that there is a trend in the maritime sector to empower networks of networks to become connected. This may concern ports becoming connected to each other, cargo owners becoming connected to ports, and shipping companies’ fleet operating centres to become connected to port’s operation centres.

To support that the ship as infrastructure as well as the different infrastructures of the port are utilised to a maximum it is thus a need for a digital data sharing platform. Perseus, provided by MarineFields, has been developed to support such emerging development of which time stamps of different kinds are shared within local communities (networks) and between such networks. To support the actor’s, within such networks, coordination and synchronization activities those timestamps need to concern both actuals and forecasts, need to be continually updated, and concern both operations and movements.

The Ship Perspective: Coordination and synchronization by Perseus

Shipping companies require their fleet to be utilised to the maximum which means that the shipping company has a desire to keep the ship in operations, which includes its just-in-time arrival to the port, being served by the port with as little waiting times as possible and get on the move to the next port of destination as soon as possible.

It is therefore paramount for the shipping company to be well-informed about when the port would be open to provide services to visiting ships. By the digital infrastructure of Perseus, opportunities are offered for shipping companies to get continuous updates on the capabilities of the port to serve the ship. It is paramount for the shipping company to get updated on the availability of the infrastructure and resources that is to be used at the port of destination utilized by other (previous) visiting ships.

The Port Perspective:  Coordination and synchronization by Perseus

At the same time, ports are interested to have their port infrastructure utilized to a maximum at the same time as optimal value is provided to its visitors. This means that the different actors in the port contributing with value to its visitors do have a desire to get an overview of the forecasted utilization of the port infrastructure. As ships’ previous visits to ports many times are disrupted and that movements might be affected by congestions and bad weather, it becomes essential that the port with its actors is continually updated with the progress, plans, and disruptions of ships movements towards the port. Real-time updated data on ship movements and the progress of them being served in previous ports becomes critical for the port of destination for their possibilities act flexible. By the digital infrastructure of Perseus, such continuous updates would be offered to the port to secure that visiting ships are provided with high service value by securing that the ships are served at the point of arrival. Real-time updated data is key to empower the ports in its re-planning processes.

Final words

To secure that both the shipping company can optimize its use of its fleet as well as for the port with its actors can optimize its use of its infrastructure and resources, it is key to have access to data that is outside the scope of its own operations. Both sides do need to get continuous update on progress, plans, and disruptions of the other party for its situational awareness and to enable good planning arriving at maximum utilization of the infrastructure.

Perseus both provides a digital data sharing environment for the instant sharing of timestamps associated to ships’ visits to ports. Perseus supports common situational awareness to emerge for local information sharing communities (networks) as well as providing opportunities for networks to be connected to other networks in a trusted environment. Perseus has the capability for the different actors engaged in ships’ port visits, both on the ship side and on the port side to provide and consume time stamps. It also comes with ship as well as port centric applications to be consumed by different types of actors as well as providing opportunities for third-party developers to surface new types of applications.

Perseus neutral nature allows for each actor to empower their competitive advantage and expanding its connectivity and digital data sharing outside its own safe zone.

[1] Lind M., Becha H., Simha A., Larsen S. E., Ben-Amram E., Gnass M. (2021) Port call optimization: Two sides of the same coin, Smart Maritime Network, 25/2-2021 (https://smartmaritimenetwork.com/2021/02/25/port-call-optimisation-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/)

]]> STEAM (Sea Traffic management in the Eastern Mediterranean) a collective project has been shortlisted for the #IAPH2022 Sustainability Award https://marine-fields.com/steam-sea-traffic-management-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-a-collective-project-has-been-shortlisted-for-the-iaph2022-sustainability-award/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:07:02 +0000 https://ecstatic-dewdney.217-154-115-37.plesk.page/?p=451

STEAM (Sea Traffic management in the Eastern Mediterranean) a collective project has been shortlisted for the #IAPH2022 Sustainability Award

MarineFields is proud to work with the STEAM project (Sea Traffic management in the Eastern Mediterranean) by providing PERSEUS, MarineFields’ data sharing platform. STEAM is a collective project between key stakeholders that has been shortlisted for the #IAPH2022 Sustainability Award in the ‘Digitalization’ category.

One of STEAM’s objective is to achieve Port Collaborative Decision Making (PortCDM) and PERSEUS is in the central to this objective. PERSEUS platform enables actors to share time stamps and common situational awareness among each other associated to port call operations. It enables supply chain visibility as well as port to port communication.

With all the shared data collected PERSEUS creates a valuable process for efficient analysis, decision making and for an aligned planning process for all port actors. In addition, the enhancement of data sharing capabilities is expected to help establish Cyprus ports as transshipment hubs and upgrade their maritime significance in the Eastern Mediterranean region.

Find out more about STEAM here

Find out more about the #IAPH2022 award here

]]> Leading Maritime Enterprises and CMMI Join Forces to Drive Green Transition in Shipping Industry https://marine-fields.com/leading-maritime-enterprises-and-cmmi-join-forces-to-drive-green-transition-in-shipping-industry/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:05:36 +0000 https://ecstatic-dewdney.217-154-115-37.plesk.page/?p=446

Leading Maritime Enterprises and CMMI Join Forces to Drive Green Transition in Shipping Industry

Leading Maritime Enterprises and CMMI Join Forces to Drive Green Transition in Shipping Industry

The Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute, in collaboration with Tototheo Maritime and MarineFields Holding Ltd., is proud to announce the launch of the ADAPTATION project. This innovative initiative is set to revolutionise the shipping sector by reducing port berthing waiting times and enhancing the efficiency of maritime logistics operations.

The ADAPTATION project utilises intelligent data acquisition and cutting-edge decision support tools to minimise waiting times for incoming traffic at ports, thus limiting idle fuel consumption and lowering emissions. This translates to Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Transport, contributing to a greener future for the shipping industry.

The ADAPTATION project provides a decision support mechanism for smart ports, optimising just-in-time solutions, and directly impacting sustainable transport, fuel consumption, and emissions. The initiative is a significant step towards a greener future for the shipping industry and demonstrates a strong commitment to sustainability by the project consortium.

The project CODEVELOP-GT/0322/0096 (ADAPTATION) is funded by the European Union’s NextGenerationEU program, through the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation, and officially commenced on 1st February 2023. The project kick-off meeting was held at the CMMI Limassol liaison office in  two days later.

For more information visit the project webpage: https://www.cmmi.blue/adaptation/.

]]> Marine-Fields Holding expands its presence in Germany https://marine-fields.com/marine-fields-holding-expands-its-presence-in-germany/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:47:40 +0000 https://ecstatic-dewdney.217-154-115-37.plesk.page/?p=437

Marine-Fields Holding expands its presence in Germany

Marine-Fields Holding Ltd, is pleased to announce the acquisition of BM Bergmann Marine GmbH. The transaction, which was completed in Hamburg on 27th of January 2023, is a formal validation of the close and successful cooperation between the two companies over the past few years. The two innovative organisations join forces  to create a leading team of marine services and solutions.

 

The acquisition is a further step in the growth of Marine-Fields Holding and Tototheo Global, which brings together the expertise and resources of BM Bergmann Marine, a well-established provider of maritime consultancy and advisory service, and Marine-Fields Holding, a leading company in maritime consultancy, digital solutions and training. Under the same umbrella BM Bergmann Marine and Marine-Fields, will offer a comprehensive range of services and products to customers in the maritime industry, including ship owners, ship operators, ports, administrations and hinterland logistics.

 

Bringing BM Bergmann Marine in the Marine-Fields family will significantly enhance the companies’ ability to meet the growing demand for marine services and solutions, while also creating new opportunities for growth and expansion. The combined companies will have a strong presence in key markets around the world and will be well-positioned to take advantage of emerging trends and opportunities in the maritime industry, especially as it relates to digitalization, data sharing and collaborative decision making as well as port and related supply chain optimization.

 

“We are excited to join forces with Marine-Fields and to build on the strengths of both companies,” said Michael Bergmann, MD of BM Bergmann Marine. “Together, we will be able to offer an even broader range of services and solutions, to our customers and we look forward to mutual growth and serving the needs of the maritime industry in the challenging times of digitalization.”

 

Andreas Chrysostomou CEO of Marine-Fields Holding and Chief Strategy Officer at Tototheo Maritime  stated “The addition of BM Bergmann Marine GmbH to the Marine-Fields Holding portfolio comes at a crucial time as the maritime industry is at the crossroad of decarbonisation and digitalisation.  Marine-Fields has been offering services to the industry since 2017 as an independent provider of maritime related services and now is expanding those services to include the knowledge and expertise of BM Bergman Marine.  We look forward to new achievements by this new setup.’

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