20 May 2014
The ESPO conference 2014 gave Portopia the opportunity to interact with the 240 port authorities and stakeholders that gathered in Gothenburg on 15 and 16 May.
Interested port authorities were supplied 'live' with their user credentials to start and verify their individual data and explore the potential of the PORTOPIA Service Cloud in terms of data storage, management and analysis.
Port authorities could explore their Port Profile, which is created within the PORTOPIA Service Cloud on the basis of data available from different sources, for instance Ecoports, Governance Fact finding survey, PPRISM, etc... .This basic Port Prolife shows, among other features, the main characteristics of a port in terms of markets, commercial activities, connectivity, institutional framework and functions of the port authority.
As host of the ESPO 2014 Conference, the Port of Gothenburg kindly agreed to share its port profile as an example. If you haven’t had the opportunity to check Gothenburg’s Port Profile at the Conference, it is maybe worth having a look at it in the document attached. Please note that individual port profiles are only accessible to ports contributing data.
Participants could also get a preview of the new ESPO Rapid Exchange System (RES) which is currently being developed within the PORTOPIA project. Under the RES, port traffic data is collected and reported quarterly from the ESPO website. Statistics on ports traffic are available 10 weeks after the end of each quarter. PORTOPIA service cloud is improving data collection and reporting and will make available tools for data analysis. You are invited to have a look at a preview of the new ESPO Rapid Data Exchange System.
The next PORTOPIA event will take place in Lisbon in September, back to back with the next meeting of the ESPO Economic Analysis and Statistics Committee which is kindly hosted by the port of Lisbon. A workshop will be set up in order to validate the requirements and features of the PORTOPIA Service Cloud as well as a dashboard based on the data of the ESPO Rapid Exchange System.
More information about PORTOPIA can be found here.