Cross-Port Benefits of Geospatial Technology

In this article OceanWise Managing Director, Mike Osborne explores the advantages of modern Geographic Information Systems (GIS) systems and how their benefits are wide reaching being no longer restricted to just one or two ‘experts’ in a port.

Ports making smarter use of GIS digital platforms to store information about land and assets are benefiting from improved geospatial data management throughout the business, within budgets that don’t break the bank.

Mike comments “The key to successfully implementing GIS is by developing and implementing data governance and a geospatial data management strategy. GIS is software, just like Excel or Word, and is nothing without the policies and procedures that underpin it“…….Click here for the full article published in Port Strategy, June 2019.

See here for our case study on how ABP Ports benefited from GIS