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Innovative Stena Line ferries on the Port Gdynia – Port Karlskrona sea highway

Posted in: Branże, Firmy, Logistyka, Marketing, Nowe Technologie

By Marek Grzybowski,

Stena Line launched the second innovative Ro-Pax for the Gdynia – Kalrlskrona sea highway in January 2023. It is an extension of the European land transport corridor Baltic – Adriatic, one of the most important European transport corridors of the TENT network.

The new ferry was named STENA EBBA

The naming ceremony for the Stena Ebba ferry in Karlskrona, Sweden, took place on January 11 this year.

– I give you the name Stena Ebba – said Ulrica Messing, Blekinge Voivode Governor, at the ship’s christening, which took place at the Ferry Terminal in Karlskrona, Sweden. A bottle of champagne was smashed against the side by the ship’s godmother.

Ulrica Messing, the godmother of the Stena Ebba ferry, is a well-known Swedish politician. She was a member of the Swedish government from 1996 to 2006. She was the Minister of Infrastructure in 2002-2006. She is currently the provincial governor of the Blekinge region. The city of Karlskrona is the capital of the Blekinge region.

Ulrica Messing, voivode of the Blekinge region, Joanna Hofman, Polish ambassador in Stockholm, Emma Swahn Nilsson, president of the Karlskrona city council, Jacek Sadaj, president of the Port of Gdynia Authority, managing director of Stena Line Niclas Mårtensson and Anders Hermansson, director of the Swedish shipowners organization Svensk Sjöfart . Marek Kiersnowski, managing director of Stena Line Polska, hosted the ceremony.

Polish and Swedish Sea Motorway

The ceremony was attended by representatives of many Polish and Swedish companies from the maritime business, as well as local government and state institutions from Poland and Sweden, as well as members of the Baltic Sea and Space Cluster.

– Our new modern ferry Stena Ebba in the southern Baltic Sea is Stena Line’s response to the dynamically growing customer demand in an economic area that is still developing – said Niclas Mårtensson, Managing Director of Stena Line

Stena Ebba is one of the largest Ro-Pax ferries in service on the Baltic Sea. The ferry is 240 meters long. The ship has 3,600 m of load line and can accommodate 200 cargo units. The ship has room for 1,200 in 263 cabins. The interior of the ship was designed in the Scandinavian style. Panoramic windows allow you to observe the sea to the horizon.

Stena Ebba ferry – energy efficient ship

The Stena Ebba ferry is energy efficient ship thanks to its optimal hull design. MAK engines can be powered by 3 types of fuel. Marine low sulfur fuel, methanol and gas.

Wärtsilä aggregates with generators can also be used to propel the ship. Then the ferry sails like an electric ship. The ferry can be powered by electricity from the quay while in port. All these solutions reduce the emission of pollutants, CO2 and heat into the atmosphere.

– Today, with the inauguration of Stena Ebba on the Gdynia-Karlskrona service, as well as the earlier introduction of the sister ship Stena Estelle, we are starting a new stage in the development of our connection – said Marek Kiersnowski, Managing Director of Stena Line Polska.

Incorporating two innovative ferries into the Gdynia – Karlskrona service, Stena line offers carriers 7,200 m freight capacity to transport companies operating on the Baltic – Adriatic trans-European transport network and the TENT network.

– We offer our customers the most modern ferries of this type on the market. This will greatly improve the comfort of sea travel for our passengers and will enable a further increase in transport traffic. This is very important for our clients and regions in Poland and Sweden that we connect – emphasized Pedro Canchaya, Regional Travel Manager, Baltic Sea South and Baltic Sea North, Stena Line.

Port of Gdynia – a modern public ferry terminal

– The Port of Gdynia has built a new public ferry terminal to increase the comfort of service for passengers and transport companies – emphasized Jacek Sadaj, President of the Management Board of the Port of Gdynia Authority.

The new ferry terminal in Gdynia provides comfortable conditions for servicing passengers, trucks and ships. Passengers board the ferry through a fully sheltered passage. Trucks, buses and passenger cars enter the ferry via convenient entrances. Ships can be supplied with electricity from a special charging station. The 240 m long ship conveniently docks at the quay.

– The construction of the Public Ferry Terminal is the largest investment implemented in the Port of Gdynia for almost 50 years. The new Public Ferry Terminal makes it possible to handle much larger passenger ferries. The terminal increases the port’s handling capacity in terms of ro-ro and ferry services, says Kazimierz Koralewski, vice-president of the Port of Gdynia Authority S.A.

The transfer of Stena Line’s operations to the Public Ferry Terminal in Gdynia enables us to introduce much larger ships. The new terminal allows vessels up to 240 m long, such as E-Flexer class ships, to be moored there. The first of them, Stena Estelle was start the service from Gdynia this summer – says Marek Kiersnowski, Managing Director of Stena Line Polska.

Stena Line – 25,000 sailings a year

Stena Line is a Swedish ferry company established in 1962, headquartered in Gothenburg. It operates on 18 routes connecting 10 countries, operates 39 ferries making nearly 25,000 sailings a year. It employs over 5,000 employees. On average, annual transport amounts to: 7.6 million passengers, 1.7 million passenger cars and 2.2 million freight units (trucks, semi-trailers, etc.). Stena Line is an important part of the European logistics network and is constantly developing new intermodal solutions, combining rail, road and sea transport. Stena Line also plays an important role in tourism in Europe thanks to its extensive passenger operations.

Stena Line has been present in Poland for over a quarter of a century. Ferries with a characteristic red chimney connect Gdynia with Karlskrona in southern Sweden. Every year, several hundred thousand passengers travel this route using one of three ferries: a ship with a wide range of attractions for passengers, Stena Spirit, and two new E-Flexer class ferries, 240 m long, taking both passengers and freight. These are twin units named Stena Estelle, which started operating in September 2022, and Stena Ebba, which joined the fleet in January 2023.

Stena Line is part of the Stena AB Group, owned by the Olsson family. In addition to ferry transport, the group deals with i.a. shipping, oil extraction, recycling, real estate. The turnover of the entire group reaches 37 billion Swedish crowns per year. Stena AB employs approximately 16,000 people worldwide.

Stena E-Flexer Ro-Pax:

Built in: 2022
Operation start: 02/01/2023
Length: 240 m
Draft: 6.4 m
Width: 28m
Freight capacity: 3600 m
Number of passengers: 1200
Number of cabins: 263

The quantum revolution in the maritime logistics

Posted in: Anti-equilibrium, CRM, Informatyka w Firmie, Logistyka, Nowe Technologie, Zarządzanie Finansowe

By Marek Grzybowski

Maritime transport has recently experienced great turmoil. The new mutations of the coronavirus pandemic and the sanctions imposed on Russia after that country invaded Ukraine have caused disruptions in global logistics. Congestion at the last mile in a port, logistics center or container terminal causes global turmoil in leading industrial markets, both on the supply and demand side.

The world’s merchant ship fleet reached a capacity of around 2.3 billion dwt in January 2023. This is about 60 million dwt more than a year earlier and over 120 million dwt than in January 2021. Tonnage has increased significantly in all segments except general cargo operators in the last two years.

Bulk carriers recorded a particularly rapid increase in overall carrying capacity. The share of bulk carriers in the total capacity increased from 41 to 43 percent, the share of tankers decreased from 30 to 29 percent, and the share of general cargo ships from 5 to 4 percent. in the years 2012-2022.

Over 500 LNG tankers transported liquefied gas across the oceans in 2021. About 650 LNG tankers transported LNG on sea routes in 2022. By the end of 2023, their number will increase to about 690 LNG tankers.

Quantum technology for the logistics industry

What can a forward-thinking organization do with the current state of technology? – asks Dr. Christopher Savoie, CEO of Zapata Computing in Forbs and answers: “It’s best to start with making the most of this technology.”

“We’re seeing a steady evolution of quantum hardware, which is becoming increasingly fault-tolerant, and existing technology is slowly becoming more widely available,” said CEO Zapata Computing.

“Quantum technology is an exciting development for the logistics industry as it allows us to solve the recurring problem of finding the most efficient route between multiple hubs, which is becoming increasingly difficult in a complex environment,” said Justin Baird, Head of Innovation, DHL, Asia-Pacific Center. DHL portal.

Logistics in storms need support

Turmoil in sea and land logistics networks will require the support of efficient tools. These include the already widespread use of IoT and the management of ship and car fleets, traffic control in ports, on railroads and on rivers.
The smallest yacht or even a boat moving on inland waterways is supported by satellite technologies.

No one can imagine the movement of ships, cars and even couriers without the support of satellite technologies. Tracking a package purchased in a store by an individual customer is already a standard. It can therefore be expected that according to the predictions of IBM and DHL and the services introduced by UPS, quantum algorithms will enter global and local logistics at a rapid pace.

If large and small ports, terminals and logistics centers, sea and land connections are to participate in the logistics networks of the global economy, then we must be prepared to introduce innovative solutions based on quantum, information and space technologies today. Otherwise, we risk marginalization or even falling out of the market.

Sources: Forbs, Zapata Computing, IBM, DHL, UPS

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Deloitte: platformy handlu elektronicznego B2B przyczyniają się do wzrostu wydajności i efektywności przedsiębiorstwa

Posted in: Branże, CRM, Firmy, Informatyka w Firmie, Marketing, Nowe Technologie

GŁÓWNE WNIOSKI Z BADANIA

Wszystko wskazuje na to, że platformy handlu elektronicznego B2B przyczyniają się do wzrostu wydajności i efektywności w wielu przedsiębiorstwach działających w obszarze B2B.

Mimo wielu zalet, wykorzystanie platformy handlu elektronicznego B2B wiąże się z pewnymi wyzwaniami występującymi na etapie planowania i wdrażania.
Przede wszystkim należy świadomie projektować wskaźnik ROI, należycie uwzględniać czynnik ludzki i przygotować się na problemy występujące w toku wdrożenia. Każdy nowy proces wymaga bowiem odpowiedniego przygotowania i czasu potrzebnego na realizację. Warto zdobyć się na cierpliwość i wypracować podejście systemowe.

Tego rodzaju rozwiązania znacząco zwiększają możliwości całego procesu sprzedaży, a także obsługi promocji i cross-sellingu. Przynoszą korzyści zarówno działom handlowym, jak i konsumentom. Ponadto przynoszą realne zyski – zarówno finansowe, jak i w formie oszczędności czasu, co znajduje odbicie w wartościach procentowych, zwłaszcza jeśli porównamy firmy korzystające z platform z firmami, które na wprowadzenie takich rozwiązań się nie zdecydowały.Więcej: Deloitte Pl

McKinsey Global Industrial Robotics Survey

Posted in: Branże, CRM, Nowe Technologie, Opinie

By Femi Ajewole is a consultant in McKinsey’s New York office; Ani Kelkar is an associate partner in the Houston office; Dylan Moore is a consultant in the Bay Area office, where Emily Shao is a partner; and Manju Thirtha is a consultant in the Dallas office.

Results from the 2022 McKinsey Global Industrial Robotics Survey reveal that industrial companies are set to spend heavily on robotics and automation. However, many will need help to complete the journey.

Across the industrial world, companies are betting big on robotics and automation. For many, automated systems will account for 25 percent of capital spending over the next five years, results from the 2022 McKinsey Global Industrial Robotics Survey show.¹ Industrial-company executives expect to see benefits in output quality, efficiency, and uptime. However, many remain wary of the challenge, with the cost of hardware and a lack of internal experience at the top of their list of concerns.

Among the industrial sectors surveyed, the biggest spender on automation over the next five years is set to be retail and consumer goods, with 23 percent of respondents from that sector planning to spent more than $500 million (Exhibit 1). That compares with 15 percent in food and beverage and 8 percent in automotive. For logistics and fulfillment players, automation will represent 30 percent or more of their capital spending in the next five years—the highest share among industrial segments surveyed.

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BCG – When Innovation Has No Borders, Culture Is Key

Posted in: Anti-equilibrium, CRM, Marketing, Menedżerowie, Nowe Technologie, Opinie, Raport z Rynku

By Johann D. Harnoss, Anna Schwarz, François Candelon, Martin Reeves, Ashley Grice, Ryoji Kimura, and Nikolaus Lang

Where do new ideas come from? Innovations that propel our societies forward often come from people who look at the familiar with fresh eyes, connecting and combining what’s previously been separate. For such innovators, crossing boundaries—not only mental boundaries, but sometimes actual physical borders—is the key to imagining new possibilities.

Talented, creative people can be found in every part of the world. Bringing together that diversity of talent enables companies and countries to see things in a new way and, our research shows, ignites the much-needed innovative spark that drives sustainable growth.

A Moral Cause with a Business Case

Reducing the obstacles to global migration, and building bridges to opportunity for talented people regardless of where they were born or what their circumstances might be, is a moral cause that also has a strong business case. The war in Ukraine, along with ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria, and elsewhere, reminds us that not all migration is voluntary—which only makes the moral cause that much more urgent.

In this “Innovation Without Borders” report, we lay out a pragmatic way forward for business executives who intend to drive creativity and innovation through global diversity. The report is based on a first-of-its-kind survey of executives in 20 industries and 10 countries, the personal beliefs that guide them, and the operational tactics they use. The report also includes the in-depth perspectives of four executives who have seen how rewarding the journey to global diversity can be for an organization—and the struggles that can occur along the way. Here are a few of their insights:

From Aspiration to Action

Our survey found that, while 95% of executives plan to embrace globally diverse teams, only 5% have fully scaled such teams across their organizations. This gap between ambition and execution is mostly a result of one thing: culture. Senior executives, especially in large, established firms, told us they worry about the significant cultural change a globally diverse workforce brings with it. Leaders of large companies who express a strong intent to pursue global diversity (and many who already are) also voice a healthy skepticism that they can get thousands of employees to follow them without ruffling some feathers.

Four Clusters of Maturity

We found that the firms in our survey fall into four distinct clusters of global diversity: companies we refer to as question marks, companies that see diversity as a tool, those who see diversity as a celebration, and those for whom diversity is a part of their DNA. Identifying the cluster a company occupies is a prerequisite for ambitious executive teams to drive action.

Managing Three Moments of Culture Shock

The four clusters above serve as beacons in the journey to global diversity, with higher creativity, growth, and innovation output the ultimate rewards. Each step on this journey offers benefits from a value creation perspective: firms that start as question marks can significantly increase their chances of becoming world class innovators by taking one or two steps in the journey to global diversity.

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