The security and fluidity of the movement of goods are strategic issues for the development of ports. The challenge requires continuous improvement to find digital solutions to simplify electronic processes, facilitate the development of international trade and secure the applications involved.
It is against this background and to accelerate its development that HAROPA - Port of Le Havre has adopted an industrial partnership approach with AIRBUS.
Today the two partners signed an industrial and distribution agreement relating to a solution combining their respective software systems, STYRIS (Radar-VTS) and S-WiNG (digital port management service). The objective is to provide a powerful, advanced solution capable of improving the monitoring of shipping and optimizing port operations and port calls. These agreements allow AIRBUS to export the know-how to other international ports and to promote HAROPA's solutions.
From right to left: Baptiste Maurand, Managing Director HAROPA - Port of Le Havre and Frederic Mouret, Head of Maritime Security at AIRBUS.
A second agreement is part of the TIGA program and the Smart Port City project.
One of the challenges of the "Smart Port City" project is to promote the integration of cybersecurity in port digitization, the increasing use of the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and Artificial Intelligence to benefit the environment of the port community in Le Havre, while supporting the emergence of cybersecurity in a framework of mutual trust between citizens and companies in the surrounding region.
Against this background, AIRBUS, the LE HAVRE SHIPPING AND PORT CONFEDERATION (UMEP), HAROPA - PORT OF LE HAVRE and SOGET have joined forces to collectively contribute their technological and human resources to the design and development of the strategy for a cybersecurity platform for use in ports, shipping and industry.
In particular, as part of an experiment, they will work together to define a technical, legal, administrative and financial framework designed to offer the services of a Security Operations Center (SOC). These services, made available to the citizens and corporations, SMEs and VSBs forming the economic fabric of the port of Le Havre, should constitute an operational solution allowing them to innovate, connect and develop, while making cybersecurity an asset for their development rather than a regulatory constraint.
