2022-06-07

Maritime Informatics
for a high performing
maritime industry
MIKAEL LIND
CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYRESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN (RISE)
MIKAEL.LIND@RI.SE

Presentation held at the 3rd IEEE
International Maritime Big Data
Workshop 2022-06-06

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Maritime informatics
u Balancing capital productivity

and energy efficiency
u Responds to organisational,

global, and humanitarianconcerns
u Three focus areas:

The application of information
systems to increase theefficiency, safety, ecologicalsustainability, and resilience of
the world’s shipping industry

u Digital Collaborationu Digital Data Sharing andDecision-Making
u Data Analytics
www.maritimeinformatics.org

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The maritime ecosystem is uniqueu Oldest and largest sharing economy
u Globalu Flatu Self-organizedu Federated and democratic governanceu Asset intensive with high demands on

optimized resource utilizationu Not allowing for one owneru Episodic interactions

3Shipping is a selforganising ecosystem• No single keystone organisation• Distributed control• Loosely coupled organizations

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Connecting what happens@sea with what
happens@shore
Enhanced predictability of movements and operations
Increased information transparency with direct andindirect stakeholders

What is theneed?

Seamless integration with the multimodal transport chain
Engaged scholars and reflective practitioners joining thesame discourse - maritime informatics
Upgrade of human capabilities in digitalisation

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Applicational areas of maritime
informatics
Foundational viewpoint
Appointment
Information sharing
economycommunities

requires

Sustainable andsmart ports

Smart ships

Intelligent cargo

may empower theData analytics
Data fusion /Digital twins
Machine learning

Maritime transports asa selforganizedecosystemNDTH

should rely on

Smart operations

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Collaborativealignment

Standardization

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decisionbasis forBalancing
environmental
sustainability andcapital productivity

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Processes for collaborative alignment
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u Empowered situational awarenessu Pieces of information needs to bebrought together
u No one sits on the whole truth

A foundation to move fromcoordinating based on
physical presence to virtual
coordination

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The need: to enhance predictability…which requires
data analytics
based on AItechniques

9The maritime appointment
economyu

A self-organised ecosystem implies distributed
coordinationuJust-in-time shipping, (elastic) slot management,
virtual arrival clause (BIMCO) and virtual queue
tickets is high on the agendauMarket places for trading appointments??

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On themove

Fulfilment
degreeLacking availability
affect utilization of

Infrastructure
utilization

Resource
utilization

Waterutilization

Port
call
optimization: Twosides of the samecoin

Fleet with ships

Lacking predictability
affect utilization ofECO

Port with its actors

RN

Visits several ports …

Is visited by several fleets …

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Emerging situation in the Asia – Pacific Route1262022-06-07

Emerging situation in the Asia – Pacific Route13

Challenging just-in-time arrival

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THE MARITIME SECTOR IS TRANFORMING …
From

To

Fragmented situational awarenessCommon situational awarenessLow information quality

High and reliable information quality

Lacking planning horizons

Predictable operations

Unstructured information exchangeStandardised data exchange

Sub optimized operations

Mature collaboration culture

Unnecessary waiting times

Just-in-time operations

Low IT maturity

Enhanced IT-systems and third-party
innovation opportunities

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What is at focus and desired –Maritime Informatics enablers and effects
enables
Phase 1:
Standardisinglead togenerates
Phase 2:Phase 3:Phase 4:
Data driven decision-making forIntelligently integrated
Capital productivity
collaboration and synchronisation
planning and execution
gains
6.
Efficiency

2.
Collaborative Alignment
1.
Standardisation ofdigital data sharing

3.
Synchronised andcoordinated operations
4.
Empowered decisionmaking

5.
Multimodal integration

7.
Resilience8.
Safety9.
Sustainability

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Concluding remarks (1)MARITIME INFORMATICSu

An applied science for the maritime industryuEngages both practitioners and researchers for a common goaluPromotes standardized digital data sharing throughout the cargo chainuSupports enhanced efficiency, safety, security, resilience, and sustainability inmaritime transportuEnables understanding, predicting, advising and improving maritime activityuEnables seamless integration to the larger transport system

Maritime Informatics is the key to the future of maritime
transport
17Concluding remarks (2)uMaritime Informatics:uA Science forchangeuRequires Engaged
Scholarship AND
reflective
practitionersuDon’t pave the cowpathsu

A driver for MET ofthe future

FOCUS AREAS OF MARITIME INFORMATICS
Digital Collaboration

Digital Data Sharing and Decision-Making

Data Analytics

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VoicesI am excited to see thatseveral years of industry
engagement has resulted ina consolidated, international Maritime Informaticsinitiative.”, Lars Mathiassen”The COVID-19 crisis has
given a further push tomaritime informatics and thedigitalization of logistics….”,Jan Hoffmann,“Global trade and shippingindustry have been advancing
their business capability byadopting Maritime Informatics”,
Phanthian Zuesongdham

MARITIME INFORMATICS
concerns MANY“… Maritime Informatics
could be the force that bringit all together to achieve
facilitation andharmonization for theinformation exchange
required when a ship iscalling a port somewhere inthe world”, Mikael Renz

"Maritime Informatics provides
great opportunities to bringsimplification to a sector that isconceived as very complex.”,
André Simha“By the discipline ofMaritime Informatics, we cannow join forces in securing asustainable world.”, Mikael Lind

For more voices visit www.maritimeinformatics.org

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Thank you!
Mikael Lind
Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE)
Chalmers University of Technology(Mikael.Lind@ri.se)

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