Digital Governance Approach to the Spanish Port System: Proposal for a Port

Abstract

The global changes that are currently taking place and which are driven by new forms of communication, behaviours, innovative technologies, etc., mean that ports have to be aware of or take into account these new trends. They have and must actively participate in this global change and become the leaders of the transformation. The main objective of this study was to carry out an in-depth analysis of the digital governance approach to the Spanish Port System. The Business Observation Tool (BOT) was used with a SWOT matrix to identify how the study environment is doing and to be able to identify those indicators that have the potential to form, as far as possible, a better approach to digital governance in Spain. The aim is to ensure that in the current technological era, the Spanish port sector evolves in terms of port digitalisation in order to adapt to the coming changes and continues to develop towards a more digitally interconnected future. It can be concluded that the indicators obtained from the technological field are the most predominant in the analysis carried out.