DIGITALISATION AND CYBER THREATS
DIGITALISATION offers great potential for increasing efficiencies and is considered key to meeting the maritime industry’s decarbonisation targets.
However, as ports and terminals – together with the maritime industry generally – digitalise their operations, CYBER THREATS proliferate.
Port and terminals are not only at risk from the weaknesses in their own level of protection – inside the port area, there might be open wireless networks or other poorly secured IT systems that are relatively easy targets for cyber-attacks – but from vulnerabilities in the systems on board visiting ships they integrate with.
At Bulk Terminals Riga, Nick Chubb, Managing Director of Thetius, will examine both What are the challenges and understanding where digitalisation can improve performance and then secondly Identifying where cyber threats come from and managing the risks.
Focusing on the topics selected by bulk terminal operators as the issues they most want to hear about and discuss – including the changes in bulk trades brought about by the conflict in Ukraine – Bulk Terminals 2022 Riga will offer a full programme of CASE STUDIES, PRESENTIONS and PANELS.
In the Markets session, which opens Bulk Terminals 2022 Riga, the conference will fully examine the impact of the conflict on grain flows, as well as other bulk sectors – in the short, medium and long term. Other sessions will cover Operations and Developments – Ensuring Environmental Protection – Improving Safety & Controlling Risk – How Technology can Provide Solutions to Terminal Operators’ Needs.
As well as the valuable networking opportunities afforded by the visit to Riga Universal Terminal, thanks to the generosity of the Freeport of Riga Authority there will be a boat tour of Riga Port with lunch on board, followed by a visit to the Vessel Traffic Services Centre. And in addition to the traditional first night reception – again courtesy of our hosts – there will be ice-breaker drinks on the evening before the conference. More details of these to follow.
Don’t miss Bulk Terminals Riga this October.
If you would like to contribute to Riga’s developing programme – including sponsors with a positive message for improvement – please drop me a line at events@bulkterminals.org or call +33 (0)321 47 72 19 – presentations including CASE STUDIES are especially welcome.
Simon Gutteridge, CE, ABTO
