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- Isabel Pardo de Vera: Ports will have to strengthen collaboration with the Port Community and with end customers, and offer co-creation spaces for the incubation and acceleration of ideas and projects.
- In total, 130 projects will be financed with €30 million from the Ports 4.0 Fund.
30-11-2022 (State Ports Public Body). The State-owned port system (46 ports managed by 28 Port Authorities and coordinated by Puertos del Estado) celebrates this year the 30th anniversary of its creation. On this occasion, several events have been organized, including the celebration of the conference dedicated to innovation “Ports 4.0. The ports of the future”.
More than 500 people between attendees and “on line” connections have participated in the event, which demonstrates the great interest that innovation awakens among the Port Community. It has been an appointment in which Administration, entrepreneurs and innovation companies have shared interests and discussed the most relevant issues, in which ongoing projects and the possibilities of new developments have occupied most of the day.
The president of Puertos del Estado, Álvaro Rodríguez Dapena, introduced the Conference by taking stock of how the gestation in 2018 and the subsequent development of the Ports 4.0 Fund went, highlighting the unanimity and support it has aroused among the Port Authorities and the Port Community itself.
Isabel Pardo de Vera, Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda of MITMA, then intervened to highlight the government’s commitment to underpin the positioning of the different modes of transport with the aim of sustainable and efficient mobility.
Pardo de Vera gave as an example of this proactive policy the Ports 4.0 Fund through which ports stimulate and radiate innovation. According to the Secretary of State, Port Authorities will have to strengthen collaboration with the Port Community and with end customers, and offer co-creation spaces for the incubation and acceleration of new ideas and projects.
Then, José Llorca, the head of Innovation of Puertos del Estado, described the main data and results of the Ports 4.0 program to date, highlighting the more than 750 applications submitted from 42 countries, of which 102 have already been selected, expected to reach 130 projects funded by the Ports 4.0 Fund at the conclusion of this second call, which will be financed with 18 M€, an amount that adds to the 12 M€ of the first call.
In a brief presentation, 14 already selected projects were presented, all of them highly collaborative projects, involving Port Authorities, which offer answers to the needs of increasingly automated and robotized ports.
Subsequently, a first round table discussed the bottlenecks for the effective introduction of innovation in the Port Community and in the logistics chain with the participation of Jorge Barrero, director of the COTEC foundation, as moderator, and Guillermo Belcastro, CEO of Hutchinson Ports BEST, José Manuel Orengo, secretary of the board of Balearia, Enric Ticó, president of FETEIA-OLTRA, María Pilar Jurado, director of the Department of Customs and Excise, and Ignacio Ballester, general manager of MSC Spain, and Ignacio Ballester, general manager of MSC Spain. Customs and Excise, and Ignacio Ballester, general manager of MSC Spain.
The ethical aspects associated with the implementation of new technologies is a vitally important issue that could generate controversy in the future. In this regard, Francisco Lara, Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Granada, gave a lecture entitled “Ethical Aspects of Artificial Intelligence”.
Innovation and digitalization are included as one of the 16 strategic lines of the new Strategic Framework recently approved. In a second round table, moderated by the Director of Planning and Development of Puertos del Estado, the presidents of the Port Authorities of Bahía de Algeciras, Bilbao, Valencia and the president of Bahía de Cádiz took part.
Strategies to boost entrepreneurship in Spain, initiatives and policy proposals have been addressed by Carlos Mateo, president of the Spanish Startups Association, Natán García, from the public sector consultancy KPMG, and Rafael Navarro from Insomnia.
The conference concluded with the reading of the conclusions presented by the president of Puertos del Estado in which he reiterated the importance of innovation for transport, and in particular for ports, and encouraged the entire port community, especially the private sector, to continue to get involved with new initiatives, which will always have the support of the port system.
Source: https://www.puertos.es/es-es/Paginas/Noticias/jornadapuertos4030nov.aspx
