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Germany‘s largest ship register becomes digital
Intelligent traffic lights and autonomous drones surveying quay walls in the port are easy to picture. At the beginning of this year Hamburg’s innovation department, the County Court and the Ministry of Justice joined forces with IT service providers Dataport and mgm technology to present something less spectacular, but nonetheless a still more impressive example of digitalization in the port.
A digital shipping register is aimed to be on stream at the end of this year. This project forms part of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg’s ‘Digital First’ strategy.
Entries and alterations are currently made in pain- staking handwriting. Anybody needing to take a peek at this public register is required to leaf through stacks of files. Digitalization of standardized working proces- ses – generation of file names, opening files, copying
documents or making a register entry – will relieve pressure on the justice system and simplify the work of the civil servants at the County Court. The new service aims to make Hamburg the industry’s first choice for ship registration.
“With the digital shipping register, we are developing something truly novel,” says Ute Kleinschirkes, pro- ject manager for Dataport. “The shipping register will be based solely and wholly on the way users and their
IN INTRODUCING THIS DIGITAL SHIPPING REGISTER, HAMBURG IS TAKING A PIONEERING ROLE
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