the industry of the shipping finds it hard to enter in the digital era



About 90% of the shippers and the final addressees of the goods transported by sea consider that it is necessary to return supply chain of the marine transport and about 85% of these operators currency more accessible and visible that the field of the marine transport suffers from "a slowness in changes" (70%) or deems that 15%) in introducing innovations and adopting are "absolutely rear" (technologies of new generation.

Network evidences a relationship elaborated from Business Performance Innovation (BPI) and from CMO Council in collaboration with the Navis societies and XVELA of the Kalmar (Cargotec group) that specific that only 12% of the loaders and the interviewed addressees have declared that their partner of the marine transport is "very efficient" in collaborating and sharing given, while 38% have asserted that under this marine point of view their partner "is improving" and 32% have assured that they are "more rather efficient".

The relationship "Competitive Gain in the Ocean Supply Chain: Innovation That's Driving Maritime Operational Transformation" observes that the importers, the exporter, the societies that transport container and those which manage harbour terminals let alone the interested owners of the ships and other operators do not have of accurate information and reliable forecasts on marine shipments and that this involves an increase of the shipping charges of the goods because of the difficulties in synchronizing the activities of the operators of the supply chain and of an insufficient availability of information.

If 90% of the interviewed ones have emphasized that the access and the sharing in real time of the data and the information it is important in order to increase the efficiency and the performances of the marine transport, 80% have evidenced that the field must improve the visibility of the supply chain.

The precise document that, however, above all the representatives of the companies leader of the field whom they are interviewed, recognize that the companies of marine transport are introducing the digitalisation and are changing mentality.

The relationship finds that the thrust towards this improvement probably comes from various sources. If, for example, the shippers speed up an increase of the visibility of data and information in the within of the logistic chain, the new alliances between shipowning companies will impose modalities better than sharing of the information between the same companies to the aim to increase the efficiency and the services to the customers, while from part harbour terminalisti they and harbour authorities press for an improvement of use it and the efficiency of the infrastructures that manage.

The improvement margins appear very wide: the specific study that each part of the marine logistic chain could obtain improvements of the not inferior procedures to 55% and until 66% if the systems of information technology were updated and if the ability to sharing of the data with the other operators of the supply were increased chain.

"Our study - Dave Murray of BPI has commented Network - evidences the indispensable requirement that the industry of the shipping increases collaboration and visibility with the adoption of models and processes based on the technology. Perhaps - partially because the industry under pressure and is limited by its challenges under the economic point of view, but also because many of its members are simply reluctant to the change - the industry has turned out too much slow in entering in the digital era".

This slow step could accelerate graces to an improvement of the economic situation of the companies of the industry of the shipping that it could happen in the arc of next the two years, period in which 27% of the interviewed ones quite consider that the economic account of the marine companies will record a "sure improvement" or a "meaningful improvement".