- It is one of the projects that have been approached during the IPCSA biannual meeting, which brings together 35 operators from ports and airports on five continents, and which has been held in the Dutch city of Rotterdam.
- During the meeting, progress made at the global level of Port Community Systems (PCS), technological platforms for the centralized management of requests and services, as well as the evolution of electronic logistics management in the maritime and aerial sector were analyzed.
Valencia, March the 9th 2018. – Valenciaport, through its electronic platform ValenciaportPCS, has participated in the biannual meeting of members of the International Association of Port Community System (IPCSA), which brings together 35 port operators and airports from the 5 continents, and has been held between February the 28th and March the 2nd in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. During the meeting, it has been approached the progress made at the global level of Port Community Systems (PSC), the technological platforms for the centralized management of requests and services, and the evolution of electronic management of logistics, both in the maritime and aerial sector. The meeting has helped to analyze the evolution of different international projects, as well as the standards promoted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the International Customs Organization (WCO) and the United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Commerce (UN / CEFACT).
On the one hand, the project of interconnection of PCSs worldwide, the so-called “Network of Trusted Networks”, has been studied, with which it is intended to share tracking information of the goods in containers to give visibility to users. ValenciaportPCS is the PAV electronic platform that allows the intelligent and secure exchange of information between public and private agents in order to improve the competitive position of the port community, both in relation to land transport and railways. This tool offers more than 20 transactional and informative services to nearly 600 companies and public organizations, which provides advanced management procedures with which they obtain greater efficiency in transactions, an optimization of their resources, the automation of their processes, costs and time saving, fewer errors and better customer service.
In addition to this global interconnection project, at the IPCSA meeting the pilot project for the realization of BLs in Blockchain was presented, integrating the importer, exporter and banks with the shipping lines. Finally, the logistic information management company of the Ministry of Transport of China, LOGINK, presented the cooperation and interconnection lines that are open with the members of IPCSA, a project that is part of the OBOR initiative, One Belt One Road, the new Silk Road in which the Chinese government currently works.