Join us at the Smart Shipping Technology Showcase in Liverpool
Technology plays a key role in strengthening UK trade competitiveness, creating resilient supply-chains, enabling economic growth and more efficient port and vessel operations.
For operators, technology can offer reduced fuel consumption, fewer delays, lower maintenance costs and improved workforce productivity.
The Smart Shipping Technology Showcase aims to connect technology developers to ports and vessel manufacturers/owners and wider maritime value chain.
1 Day
Cross-sector
innovations
Exhibition
Who should attend?
The showcase will feature UK businesses who are members of the Smart Shipping Programme and are developing innovative technologies.
The event is aimed at:
- Ports
- Vessel owners/manufacturers
- Regulators
- Government
- Wider maritime sector
- Technology developers
Attendees will gain insight into how technology can support the UK’s maritime sector. Places are limited, early registration is encouraged.
About the Smart Shipping Programme
The Smart Shipping Programme is delivered by Innovate UK Business Connect and is funded by the Department for Transport, The Programme aims to:
1. Build a UK Smart Shipping Community
2. Enable the adoption of new solutions to create a UK smart shipping industry
DfT has invested £19.2mn up to October 2026 in Smart Shipping technologies as part of their UK SHORE investment programme. Innovate UK Business Connect’s role is to build and mobilise a UK Smart Shipping community around the investment and work with Ports and vessel owner/manufacturers to connect them to key technologies.
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