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Smart Ports for

a Smarter

Bangladesh

mainly in Europe, beginning with the
growth of cloud connectivity to the
soaring use of drones to monitor
and while we’re at it I believe we terminal operations, 2019 has been a
owe it to our port authorities to help year of genuinely high-tech progress in
By Raihan Hadi them transition into smarter the ports and terminals industry. The
authorities who would require much swift progressions in tech have made it
lesser time to process shipments. We possible to work towards a smart
now live in a world where Smart ecosystem – of which seaports will be
Digital Ports of the Future is no essential – where supply chain data
longer in the future, but the present. flows without a glitch.
Despite holding positions in the Terms like 5G, IoT, IoV etc. aren’t alien
lower quarter and half of the top to Bangladesh anymore, but initiatives
I’m a big fan of the open mind, hundred ports in the world in terms are required at this very moment from
particularly because it helps getting of total cargo volume and container our government, our enormous pool of
things done. And while the biggest of traffic, the sea ports of Bangladesh IT professionals, and foreign collabora-
all open minds are exploring space are very busy, and can use smart tors to introduce these technologies
looking for resources and what not, technologies to improve to amazing into our port systems which clearly
I’m here today to explore some ideas levels of efficiency, especially given deserves an upgrade to support traders
with you and I hope you’re coming that the first deep sea port (Matar- better.
with an open mind. bari, Cox’s Bazaar) is finally under
Bangladesh has been on this crusade development. The Writer is the CEO of Galaxie AG and Global
of digitizing itself for a while now, While in the rest of the world, Advisor, Global Chamber Chittagong

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