Halifax Opening Living Lab For Ports
The Halifax Port Authority is boosting the region’s growing oceans ecosystem with its Living Lab, designed to be a global centre for collaboration on maritime innovation, especially as it pertains to the port industry.
The PIER (Port Innovation, Engagement, and Research) will allow partners, entrepreneurs, researchers and stakeholders to solve “wicked” industry problems and uncover new commercial opportunities.
Currently under construction at the former Seaport Farmers’ Market (which has moved to the nearby Cruise Pavilion) the 30,000-square-foot space is maintaining its open-plan character and acquiring appropriate features such as meeting rooms built from shipping containers.
The wicked problems to be addressed are big, long-standing issues which “no one party can solve alone”, said Andrew Black, Director for Strategic Technology at the Port Authority, in an interview. Examples include the need for standardized data and the decarbonization of supply chains.
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