Digitalisation as a Tool to Enhance Sustainability in Shipping

Description

The presentation will examine the potential of digitisation and digitalisation to contribute to sustainability and climate alignment in shipping.
Digitalisation can have many faces. In the form of transition to the use of electronic trade documents, it can provide a direct contribution by saving of paper and related waste of resources including the effects of physical transportation of paper documents. Insofar, relevant legislation will be introduced that is currently being implemented to reduce barriers to e-documentation.
Electronic data exchange and single window initiatives in freight transport under the Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic, electronic freight transport documentation for other modes as per EU Regulation and the EU single window for customs can enable efficiencies and savings, both in economic and environmental terms.
In a different application, digitisation and digitalisation can assist effective measurement and sharing of data, such as GHG emission, collected to enhance accountability and allow appropriate reporting required by the maritime industry as well as by their customers in form of ESG reporting.
The key, however, for all efforts to provide appropriate outcomes is collaboration, standardisation and interoperability, so that digitalisation can move beyond information silos and achieve its full potential. In this vein, relevant industry initiatives and regulatory attempts to enable effective digitalisation and information flow are examined.

Period	16 Mar 2023
Event title	5th Annual Lecture on International and Maritime Law , InterTran and CMI Finland: Digitalisation as a Tool to Enhance Sustainability in Shipping
Event type	Seminar
Location	Helsinki, FinlandShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International