Port Community System

Overview

LSCM has been working with the Transport and Logistics Bureau to study the development of the Port Community System, supporting Hong Kong’s development into a smart port with a wider use of digital technology and facilitate information sharing within the port community.

  • Port Community System
Research completion
2025
Commercialisation opportunities
Technology licensing
Problem addressed

The uncertainty of supply chain is affecting the global trade and economy. Hong Kong needs to overcome the challenges with the use of technology. The continuous and rapid growth of e-commerce also led to the increased demands for upgraded e-logistics services by Hong Kong. Hong Kong thus urgently needs more extensive digitalisation to maintain its position as the key air, sea and intermodal global freight hub.

Innovation
  • Research for blockchain-based data repository with apps developed for port users as well as API for their systems, to facilitate their digitisation and data sharing on blockchain.
  • To support smart port analytics, LSCM studies the ship’s AIS data to calculate complex movements, berthing and mooring patterns, and to generate analytics for the efficiency, congestion and trajectory statistics, which enables inter-port connectivity and route re-scheduling analysis.
Key impact
  • Engages the port community to understand the gap in digitisation.
  • Leveraging advanced information technologies, it efficiently tracks and visualises the global supply chain and port logistics.
Award
  • Bronze Medal in the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva in 2024
Application
  • Trade
  • Logistics
Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre (LSCM)

Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre (LSCM) was founded in 2006, with funding from the Innovation and Technology Fund of The Government of the Hong Kong SAR, and is co-hosted by the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. It aims to strengthen the local logistics sector and related industries by providing a one-stop resource for applied research and technology transfer, and to reinforce cooperation between the industry and research institutes to bring about meaningful and significant impact on the industry and the community. 

LSCM serves the industry by initiating research projects, contract research, as well as providing business matching opportunities, technology transfer and intellectual property commercialisation. LSCM initiates technology and knowledge transfer to the marketplace to promote industrial digitalisation, facilitate technology advancement and strengthen Hong Kong’s position as a leading logistics and commercial hub.

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