Port Technology (PTI) is to organise a Smart Ports & Supply Chain Technologies Conference which is to be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from 2-3 October.

Following on from PTI’s Container Terminal Automation Conferences (CTAC), the new conference gathers key smart ports, financial experts, freight forwarders, tech giants and shippers, with the aim of uniting them to discuss the ‘smart’ port and supply chain technologies.

The twelve sessions include:

  • 'Smart' Port Vision: The Rotterdam Story
  • Port Digitisation: Technologies for Smarter Operations Integration
  • The Smart Supply Chain: Total End-to-End Data Sharing Solutions
  • Collaboration and Standardisation: Global Processes Implementation for Smart Exception Management
  • Blockchain and Data Sharing: Capitalising on the Blockchain Opportunity
  • Smart Global Trading: Profiling Leading Future Performance Models
  • Smarter Port Terminals: Integrating the Global Trade Supply Chain
  • Terminal KPIs: Maximising Productivity
  • Smart Terminal Solutions: Transforming Terminals into Intelligent Network Nodes
  • Prioritising the End User: Total E2E Intermodal Planning Processes
  • Evolving Business Models: Transformation Solutions
  • Which Future Business Model for Success?: Unveiling the Challenges in an E2E Supply-Chain Driven Market