Port Com­mu­ni­ty Sys­tem provider So­get has part­nered with bmo­bile Busi­ness as the digi­ti­sa­tion and dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion of T&T’s ports con­tin­ues.

In a re­lease on Tues­day, TSTT said, “Through its busi­ness-to-busi­ness arm, bmo­bile Busi­ness, the com­pa­ny will pro­vide all In­fra­struc­ture-as-a-Ser­vice (IAAS) needs for the project.The PCS is a sin­gle open elec­tron­ic plat­form that en­ables faster and more se­cure ex­changes of in­for­ma­tion be­tween pub­lic and pri­vate stake­hold­ers in the port com­mu­ni­ty.”

SO­GET, a glob­al Port Com­mu­ni­ty Sys­tem (PCS) leader with a strong ex­per­tise in Eu­rope, Africa, the far east and the Caribbean, was cho­sen by the Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try to im­ple­ment the PCS de­ploy­ment over the next 24 months at all ma­jor air and sea ports.

Hervé Cornède, CEO of SO­GET, said, “We are pleased to sign this strate­gic part­ner­ship with bmo­bile Busi­ness, the coun­try’s largest com­mu­ni­ca­tions so­lu­tions provider. This col­lab­o­ra­tion al­lows us to place our col­lab­o­ra­tive plat­form at the heart of cut­ting-edge dig­i­tal so­lu­tions for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s port and lo­gis­tics com­mu­ni­ties, re­in­forc­ing our com­mit­ment to de­liv­er­ing in­dus­try-lead­ing tech­no­log­i­cal in­no­va­tion.

“Bmo­bile Busi­ness will of­fer vir­tu­al­i­sa­tion, stor­age, re­dun­dan­cy, and over­all com­put­ing needs to make the project a re­al­i­ty.”

Dar­ryl Duke, as­sis­tant vice pres­i­dent of busi­ness sales, TSTT, said, “Im­ple­ment­ing the PCS will her­ald a new era of trade fa­cil­i­ta­tion for every stake­hold­er that in­ter­acts in any way with any of our ports. While there will be in­creased speed, greater ef­fi­cien­cy, im­proved da­ta and met­rics and a lean­er sup­ply chain when this project comes on-stream, there are count­less oth­er ben­e­fits, in­clud­ing re­duced cost of op­er­a­tions for State en­ti­ties and greater en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pacts from go­ing pa­per­less to low­er car­bon emis­sions from im­proved port op­er­a­tions.”

He con­tin­ued, “The im­por­tance of the PCS is un­der­scored by a 2018 In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank study, which iden­ti­fied de­fi­cien­cies in lo­cal port op­er­a­tions that in­crease costs along the sup­ply chain. With the PCS, Trinidad and To­ba­go aims to im­prove its glob­al com­pet­i­tive­ness, re­duc­ing the time and cost for im­ports and ex­ports, and en­hanc­ing the over­all ef­fi­cien­cy of port op­er­a­tions.

“With the PCS project through SO­GET, with the fa­cil­i­ta­tion of tech­nol­o­gy, da­ta and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions sup­port by bmo­bile Busi­ness, the re­sult­ing in­ter­op­er­abil­i­ty be­tween cur­rent port man­age­ment sys­tems will be no­tice­able to all clients and users of the ports through re­duced wait times, im­proved tech­no­log­i­cal fa­cil­i­ta­tion and less pa­per­work and faster, stream­lined process­es,” Duke said.