Innovation

KEY THOUGHTS ON INNOVATION

The UK’s maritime industries have an exceptional opportunity to set a global standard for ‘green fi rst’ innovation

That was the take home message from the fi rst day of the UK Port of Tyne’s Maritime Innovation Week.

“Our maritime industry can accelerate achieving the government’s UK SHORE and Maritime 2050 goals by working together and we are delighted with the amazing response received from the entire sector,” said Matt Beeton, CEO of the Port of Tyne. ”The case for disruptive innovation has never been more compelling and Maritime Innovation Week will provide essential know how and a clear opportunity to become cleaner, smarter, more efficient, data-driven, innovative and sustainable.”

Port decarbonisation

One of the stand out talks from the first day was from Andrés Martell, design futures team lead, Connected Places Catapult, which is an innovation accelerator which exists to provide impartial ‘innovation as a service’ for public bodies, businesses, and infrastructure providers.

The catapult also runs technology demonstrators and SME accelerators to scale new solutions that drive growth, spread prosperity and eliminate carbon.

Mr Martell outlined how the Connected Places Catapult has taken a broad ‘system of systems’ approach, considering how the shore power and other interventions will lead to decarbonisation of the existing and new Aberdeen harbours, the vessels using it and its linkages to the wider Aberdeen city region.

The aim has been to develop a transferable blueprint for implementation of decarbonisation of ports and to disseminate the findings widely to build consensus across the industry on an approach to decarbonisation to meet shared goals.

This project uses ’Strategic foresight’ is the methodical and rigorous practise to identifying and better preparing for change. Or, “Decision-making under extreme adversity,” as Mr Martell calls it.

Using this method, Connected Places Catapult has developed a strategic toolkit for investigating the future of the maritime industry which is free for all to use.

Maritime Innovation Week

The Port of Tyne’s Maritime Innovation Week welcomed over 300 senior leaders from across the industry to challenge traditional approaches and showcase the very best of Industry 4.0 thinking and action for maritime applications.

The four-day conference kicked off at the Port’s 2050 Innovation Hub, a centre of excellence established to help the industry access cross-sector best practice and support research into energy business transformation, before concluding as London Tech Week’s maritime stream.

8 The Port of Tyne’s

Maritime Innovation Week welcomed over 300 senior leaders from across the industry to challenge traditional approaches to innovative thinking

Carbon literacy toolkit

A collaboration between UK and international ports will develop a carbon literacy toolkit.

The new tool, which Port of Tyne will create through its 2050 Maritime Innovation Hub, will be a unique and tailored learning and development (L&D) toolkit which will improve carbon literacy levels among employees.

“There are so many compelling reasons why the Carbon Literacy for Ports toolkit is important – from helping to minimise the impact of port operations on our planet, to offering very practical ways to becoming more financially and environmentally efficient as businesses,” said Eleni Bougioukou, innovation manager for energy and sustainability at the Port of Tyne.

“Our collaborative toolkit will be designed

Credit: Port of Tyne

8 The toolkit aims to improve awareness of climate

change and carbon literacy within the port sector

to change perceptions about what climate change is and to ensure that everyone working in the port sector operates with reducing the carbon footprint at the forefront of their minds.”

Unique tool

This toolkit is the first of its kind for the port industry and will be implemented to support L&D initiatives as part of the Tyne 2050 strategy objectives, to improve awareness of climate change and carbon literacy within the port sector.

When ready, the toolkit is to be made available as an industry wide educational resource to benefit other UK and international ports that aim to inspire a change of culture and process within the port industry.

Focusing on port collaboration within the UK and internationally, the 2050 Maritime Innovation Hub will host a series of virtual sprints starting from September with the aim of developing the port specific toolkit.

The Port of Tyne, in collaboration with the Carbon Literacy Trust, launched the project through a Q&A virtual session held by the 2050 Maritime Innovation Hub on 1 July 2022.

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