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Port terminal operations

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Digitalization platform for enhanced productivity, safety and sustainability

Port operators are under growing pressure to increase productivity as the volume of shipping trade increases, ensure the safety of their workers in highly congested yards and meet ambitious sustainability goals to reduce the environmental impact of their operations. Nokia’s port terminal solutions provide operators with an integrated digital automation platform that can help them optimize container terminal productivity safely and sustainably — and prepare them to compete in the new digital age of transportation and logistics.

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Realize the potential of Port 4.0

Enable port terminal automation

Industry 4.0 technologies can power your automated and remote-control operations. Manage growing container volumes, optimize end-to-end workflows and accurately track terminal assets (and their condition) in real-time. Get the performance and low latency you need for Port 4.0 use cases such as incident detection with video analytics, machine automation of cargo handling equipment such as RTGs and straddle carriers, container ID recognition, drone inspections and more.

Be more productive, safe and sustainable

Our innovative smart port solutions integrate connectivity, IoT, edge computing and machine learning technologies. They include digital applications such as digital twins, workflow and video analytics, smart traffic management, drone inspections in dangerous or hard-to-reach areas, and sensors for worker and environmental monitoring to create terminals that are more productive, safe and sustainable.

Improve operational efficiency and collaboration

Streamline your cargo shipping operations with secure, reliable data communications. Move on from private mobile radio (PMR) and equip your staff with advanced push-to-talk (PTT), push-to-video (PTV), group calling and other dynamic communication capabilities. By replacing a patchwork of networks with one platform that supports all communications, terminal operators can reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 27 percent while increasing operational efficiency and productivity by up to 11 percent.*

*Source: Bell Labs Consulting

Enhance ship-to-shore communications

Keep ships connected and support data-driven use cases with fast, secure wireless communications. Our solutions provide high-range antennas that connect ships with mobile networks on shore. We also provide capabilities that enable ships to benefit from bandwidth aggregation and higher levels of quality of service (QoS) and security.

The business case for port digitalization

A fully optimized port terminal through digitalization improves throughput, reduces the number of unnecessary moves and improves capacity to onboard new customers.

An effective analysis requires a deep dive into multiple factors that affect operational efficiency. Nokia offers a comprehensive, customized tool to help you analyze and quantify the benefits of digitalization for your port terminal.

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Simplify Industry 4.0 operations

Industry 4.0 operations that fuse physical and digital processes require a reliable communications platform — one that can connect everything from vehicles and sensors to mobile workers in the most flexible, affordable and secure way.

By digitalizing your operations, you can easily transform data into insights to become more agile and proactive. Adopt remote and autonomous technologies, powered by advanced intelligence, to enable highly collaborative, hybrid work environments and real-time responses.

The Nokia One Platform helps address your operational needs and simplify your Port 4.0 transformation.

Connectivity

A mission-critical private 4.9G/LTE or 5G wireless network that helps digitalize your operational technology (OT) systems to make them more agile and resilient, integrative with the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure that provides reliable connectivity for IT systems and non-business-critical OT use cases

 

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Why choose Nokia to automate your port?

  • Deploy solutions that draw on our 30-plus years of experience in building innovative mission-critical enterprise networks.
  • Collaborate with a trusted partner that has worked with transportation and logistics companies around the world.
  • Address your unique needs by choosing from the industry’s broadest portfolio of networking products.
  • Stay ahead of competitors and market trends with the latest innovations and insights from Nokia Bell Labs.
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“The deployment of Nokia private LTE was a significant milestone for us at the Port of Tacoma and has exceeded our expectations. The regular disconnections and packet loss that we experienced over Wi-Fi, that created downtime and impacted productivity, are now a thing of the past. With reliability no longer a concern, we’ve moved from firefighting mode to focusing on the strategic use cases that will further enhance operations for our customers as well as our teams working at the port.”
Philip Styf
Director of IT, Husky Terminal
“The 4.9G/LTE private wireless network connects all our ports, all our means of production. And most importantly, it connects the 15 different companies that are here every day, in two shifts. This connections need to work over a very large area. In three years of use, I have not received a single notification about the network not working so this is an extremely well-functioning network.”
Torbjörn Witting
CEO, Port of Kokkola
“Building flexible and resilient technology platforms to meet our customers’ needs is a key element of our strategy, and becoming the first mainland port operator in the UK to offer a private 5G network to our customers is a fantastic milestone for ABP. We would like to thank our partners for enabling this project, which will equip our Port in Southampton with the state-of-the-art infrastructure needed to be at the forefront of the digital revolution in the maritime industry.”
Henrik L. Pedersen
Chief Executive Officer, Associated British Ports
“Innovation is at the heart of Puerto Bahía. Our aim as a company is to implement technological tools that help us position ourselves as a Smart Port 4.0. With Claro and Nokia deploying an industrial-grade network, we are undoubtedly setting a great scenario for the optimization of our logistics and the development of various use cases that will lead us to a more effective operation and benefit our customers, suppliers and collaborators.”
Rodrigo Torras
President of Puerto Bahía
“We are working with AT&T Mexico and Nokia because of their expertise and unique knowledge in the Mexican telecom market. The signal strength has really exceeded our expectations so far. We can cover the entire port with the solution, reaching a radius of about 6 kilometers. This platform is already considered a reference for the rest of the terminals in the group.”
Nathalie Rush
Managing Director, APM Terminals Yucatan
“By implementing the Nokia Industrial fieldrouters and dongles within straddle carriers, cranes and mobile machines we can rely on them staying connected to the control center. It has allowed us to increase automation as we continue to deliver innovative solutions that will benefit our customers.”
Toni Söderlund
Vice President, Products & Solutions at Kalmar
“In the Baltic Sea region, fuel consumption accounts for over 50% of ships’ expenses. Based on our data, we can offer the ships just-in-time arrival slots. This helps the ships regulate their speed at sea, enabling substantial cost savings on fuel. The current LTE network will also serve us exceptionally well in the future. We will need local 5G in those cases that require a higher uplink speed or certain kinds of autonomous functions. We’ve had a very good experience using Nokia’s technology. It has proven to be reliable and, above all, connecting different devices to the network and controlling them on it has been really easy.”
Jyrki Roukala
Development Manager, Port of Kokkola
“Port and terminal operators worldwide are eager to leverage the productivity gains on offer with cargo handling automation – and secure, reliable, high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity is an essential part of that equation. By integrating our pioneering Kalmar solutions with latest Nokia digitalization innovation, we can deliver a new generation of offerings that transform port terminal operations.”
Antti Kaunonen
President Kalmar Automation Solutions

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