Setting Sail for Success: TLIP and IOTA’s Role in Maritime Advancements through the EU-Funded MISSION Project

• The EU-funded MISSION project aims to address the maritime industry’s challenges by leveraging IOTA’s TLIP infrastructure, which uses distributed ledger technology for secure and seamless data sharing.
• The MISSION project also aims to integrate TLIP with AI-driven smart contracts thereby enhancing responsiveness to exchanged data.

Maritime transport, which accounts for nearly 80% of the global trade has been facing major challenges with the fragmented IT infrastructure. So far, this sector has been using disparate IT systems used by different intermediaries within the supply chain involving port community systems and fleet performance management systems.

Although these systems can automate data for real-time data sharing, they usually operate in isolation and separately leading to resource-intensive efforts in order to maintain essential information. However, this inefficiency in real-time communication largely disrupts the maritime supply chain as all actors are not in sync to receive the updated information.

In the absence of a comprehensive system for planning and monitoring port operations and sea traffic, most maritime ports operate the ships on a first-come-first-serve basis instead of working in a well-orchestrated and planned scheme. this leads to greater inefficiencies and delays within the maritime industry.

In order to address all these challenges, the EU-funded MISSION project is working on a new communication and logistics platform to optimize planning, orchestrate port operations, and coordinate port traffic. Thus, to solve all the crucial challenges associated with the maritime industry, project MISSION will leverage IOTA’s TLIP infrastructure.

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Leveraging IOTA’s TLIP Infrastructure

Along with being crucial for just-in-time port call optimization, TLIP will improve the planning and alignment of port operations with better coordination of vessel arrivals and departures. It addresses the challenges posed by ships at sea with limited bandwidth and unstable connections, making it an essential component of the MISSION project. TLIP revolutionizes data sharing, fosters collaboration, and propels port operations into a new era of innovation.