Maritime Innovation Sound Waves - Episode 1: Smart Ports

Welcome to the Maritime Innovation Sound Waves Podcast from the Maritime and Ports Innovation Network - a series dedicated to discussing and exploring technologies as well as solutions developed and used in the Ports and Maritime sector to meet the government’s Net Zero targets.

In this episode, we discuss the use cases of Smart Ports designed to support the digitalisation of supply chain logistics and increase resilience, improve efficiency, and accelerate decarbonisation.

Hosted by Mark Wray, we are joined in this episode by Thomas White, Ecosystems Director for Maritime from the Connected Places Catapult & Richard Willis, Technical Director for Port Technology at Royal HaskoningDHV.

Useful links and additional information

• The Maritime & Ports Innovation Network is a community that collates knowledge from the maritime and ports sector to solve challenges and share industry opportunities to succeed in the transition to a net zero future through building innovative maritime solutions.
• Access the Smarter UK ports case studies from Royal HaskoningDHV The Mersey river transport reimagined report that Royal HaskoningDHV and Connected Places Catapult mentioned contains details about the Mersey freight and passenger transport ecosystem and future low-carbon, automated transport solutions can be viewed by clicking here.
• Contact Innovate UK KTN’s Infrastructure team.
• Contact Innovate UK KTN’s Transport team.
• Explore Connected Places Catapult and Royal HaskoningDHV.

Click here to view the transcript (PDF).