13 October 2020 | For: Cienfuegos newspaper
With the signing of an agreement between the Center's Port Services Company and the Science and Technology Interface Society of the Marta Abreu de Las Villas Central University (UCLV), the optimization and digitization of the Port of Cienfuegos will begin in the coming days. . This was confirmed on September 5 by Walter Castellanos Castro, general director of the port entity, who specified that this responds to the national strategic development plan towards 2030 and is part of a much more ambitious project, aimed at the integration of logistics chains . Conceived in two stages - the digitization of internal logistics and the integration of supply chains - the first of these will begin with the diagnosis of the company and other actors linked to its assignment, to make way for the computerization of the processes . “Desoft would take on the task through the creation of a technological platform that will integrate all logistics flows. In this way, the traffic of goods will be faster, with the reduction of the times by approximately 50 percent and, therefore, of the payments for the stay of the ships ”, stated Andrés Silva Delgado, director of Commercial Exploitation Operations . The official added that “currently 80 percent of the volume of work related to the import and export of products is of a documentary nature and is done by hand. This will be digitized and we intend to achieve it as soon as possible ”. According to specialists, the agreement will be the first to be materialized in Cuba between a scientific center and a port on the island, with the participation also of the Central Territory Maritime Administration. In the future, the objective is to create a port logistics community, which establishes an extensive management model for the rest of the country. The project, said Silva Delgado, will culminate in the total automation of the central supply chain, which would imply the use of digital ecosystems typical of the so-called Industry 4.0. For its implementation, the UCLV experts handle the most innovative notions that are applied today in the world's ports associated with the sustainable development agenda, such as green ports, blue growth and port city.