“Digitalization is key to overcoming the resistance of the sea”

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SEA Port Solutions  is a startup that offers a technological solution from the Port CDM (Collaborative Decision Making) family of systems for the optimization of maritime-port operations based on the automatic exchange of information in real time between interested agents. In addition, it offers business consulting services focused on analyzing the initial situation of ports in terms of procedures and systems used for the exchange of information and defining by consensus the scope of the technical developments to be addressed. Gabriel Ferrús  is the CEO of SEAPort Solutions: GD Empresa: How was SEAPort born and how has it evolved within the maritime sector? Answer: We began to entertain the idea of ​​creating the company after the conclusion of the pilot tests of the Port CDM concept that the Valenciaport Foundation coordinated until , aware of the identified digitalization needs and the potential room for improvement in the efficiency of the ship scale.

The constitution took place in June  after the reduction of restrictions due to and Infoport and Híades joined as technological partners. During the first months we participated in European business acceleration programs and presented two project proposals to public programs that were selected. In  we made progress in expanding the functionalities of PAULA with co-financing from the Valencian C Level Contact List Innovation Agency, and in  we began the project to deploy our platform in the real operational environment of the three subsidized ports managed by the Port Authority of Valencia. by Ports  “We try to involve all agents so that they are the ones who communicate the Your main objective is that the agents involved in your field are correctly informed. Who are these agents and what is your differentiating point? A: That's right, we ensure that all those who participate in the process of calling ships in port have a precise vision of the services in which.



They will have to intervene, ranging from the consignee agencies that represent the ships of the shipping companies in the ports where they call, the providers of technical-nautical services, that is: moorers, tugboats and pilots, the port authorities as managers of the port public domain, the terminal operators and the fuel suppliers to the ships. , bunkering. Our main differential is the fact of trying to involve all of them as the origin and source of the data and that they are the ones who communicate the information that concerns them. Q: Why is it so important to have the most accurate prediction possible both in terms of time and quality at sea? How has technology evolved in this sense? A: The maritime sector has traditionally faced the problem of parceling out and isolating information in silos, as it greatly complicates the optimization of processes in which the number of entities involved is so high and in which all of them They require being informed correctly at the right time.