MARSA MAROC PARTICIPATES IN THE SECOND EDITION OF THE HACKATHON “SMART PORT CHALLENGE 2022”

3 October 2022

Events

Marsa Maroc supported the second edition of the Hackathon “Smart Port Challenge 2022”, organized during the month of September by ANP and PortNet in partnership with the Global Facilitation Alliance.

This competition, which ended on Tuesday, September 27, 2022, attracted more than 150 participants from around the world. Placed under the theme “Smart Port Innovation”, the competition was open to university researchers, companies, and startups to provide relevant and innovative responses to the 4 challenges identified, namely sustainable development, performance, logistical fluidity, and trade facilitation.

This year, 46 teams presented projects that met the challenges of this 100% online competition during the final phase of the competition. The Smart Port Challenge 2022 ended with the announcement of four winning teams:

Siliconesignale Technologies proposed the Iport
Smart Yards solution which allows predictive
models to be run on the availability of the docks and
consequently proposes, to the approaching ships, the
adjustment of their speed and therefore a reduction
of their energy bill as well as their wait time in the
harbor
The architect-designer Mr. Abdessamad ELAICHATI
proposed the PORT-LAB system solution which
consists of a mobile laboratory in the form of a
container equipped with the latest technologies for
pollution inspection in ports
The Siliconesignale Technologies team proposed
“iPort: Integrated monitoring and planning of port
resources”, a complete digital solution for the
monitoring and planning of port resources to optimize
traffic in order to reduce truck traffic congestion at
the port of Casablanca
The Wabtech team proposed the Cargo Dwell &
Optimization solution, a web-based solution that is
based on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics to
improve the processing of containerized imports and
exports in order to reduce the uncertainty of stay
time, improve prediction, synchronization between
administrative procedures and port logistics, and
traceability of operations