Belfast Harbour strikes digitisation deal with IBM and SRO Solutions
Manchester-based tech firm SRO Solutions has signed an agreement with Belfast Harbour to provide IBM’s Maximo asset management software licences, as it looks to increase digitalisation across its operations.
The city’s port is Northern Ireland’s principal logistics and distribution hub, responsible for more than two-thirds of all seaborne trade. In excess of 1.75 million people and over half a million freight vehicles pass through the port annually, while 24 million tonnes of goods are managed and carried by ferries, container ships and general cargo vessels.
SRO Solutions, part of the Cohesive Companies and a Gold Accredited IBM Business Partner, carried out a usage review and has transacted additional licenses to Belfast Harbour, more than doubling the number of Maximo licences being used on site. Over the coming months its consultants will help Belfast Harbour expand its use of the software to deliver gr