Hardly anything can ruin a rail operator's day more than a broken piece of the rolling stock. One screw gives up and the entire train set is screwed-up (pun intended). In a sector where fleet reliability is crucial for improving efficiency and reducing the total cost of ownership, the ability to anticipate malfunction is of huge importance.
Via Carpathia is already an ongoing road project that was conceived by Poland over a decade ago and which is now strongly promoted by the country's administration as a key element of the so-called Three Seas Initiative meant to bring closer the regions of the Baltic, Adriatic, and Black Seas.
Digitisation is on everyone's lips these days and the logistics sector is no exemption from this rule. While it may appear that there's a wide variety of IT solutions on the market for the industry to sufficiently tackle the challenge of bringing one's business onto the next digital level, this is in itself, paradoxically, also a major obstacle to the digitisation of the supply chain. What is namely missing is a united and feasible approach.
In a recent survey carried out by etf and Localz, shippers of all sizes have identifed upgrading last mile logistics, today often less efcient and more costly than other parts of a supply chain, as the cornerstone for driving growth and proftability.
A superior user experience (UX) is relevant not only for the relationship between companies and customers, but also between companies and employees. In fact, it is a key factor in attracting and retaining the top professionals that today's companies need to succeed and thrive.
It seemed that we've got used to it over the past few decades. Faster processors and larger memory capacities provided computers with higher computing performance year-on-year. Various sensors became smaller and cheaper, too.
"Smart." A great word, especially when you're trying to sell someone on an idea. Smart isn't just new and exciting - it is the right thing to do. It gives you the sense of moving in the desired direction. And that's what companies want most - to grow, evolve, and stay competitive in an ever-changing environment.
Leaving aside various marketing & sales shenanigans that attach the word "smart" to virtually anything these days to beef up the price and con consumers, genuine digital solutions give ports of all sizes and purposes the opportunity to do more with less.
