How impact happens
What our open innovation platform looks like, what to expect in practice and who to engage with
The Trade & Transport Impact practice
Your fast track to innovation
The Trade & Transport Impact practice brings multiple corporate partners together in solving key supply chain challenges and help narrow the scope and uncover the startup solutions available to translate insights into ROI. A cycle with us takes less than five months, enabling both corporate and startup partners to unlock tangible growth opportunities quickly and effectively.
We focus our open innovation efforts within three core areas of any supply chain; decarbonisation, supply chain resilience (SCR) and safety. These areas allow us to dive into niches within each area and address them in practice.

Our approach to open innovation
Narrowing down challenges
We identify critical, industry-wide challenges and solve them through partnering corporations and startups. Corporate partners explore and engage with innovative solutions alongside companies with similar interests. To do so, we and the partners narrow challenges down to a few high-impact areas where value can be created.


Uncovering opportunities on a global scale
An ever-changing tech and startup landscape requires frequent and live insights into possible applications to create new solutions and assess relevance to specific domains and companies. This requires a macro approach to ‘boil the oceans’ to understand how the landscape is moving as well as a micro-focus on key themes that matter most to the industry.
Translating opportunities into ROI
Insights are turned into real options to increase company value. This translates into a growing portfolio of opportunities that both allows for short term results as well as more transformative long-term impacts. Key pathways include: Fastest and leanest path to adopt tech solutions, collaboration to co-create new solutions and building new ventures.

Program design
Phase 1
Understanding the challenge
Phase 2
Identifying high-potential solutions
Decarbonisation track
In this track, we dive deep into some of the most pressing challenges for decarbonising shipping, such as emission tracking, predictive Maintenance & AI, carbon trading & offsetting, fuel additives and lubricants, alternative fuels as well as business model innovations.

Key dates
Scoping challenges
Aug. – Sep. 2021
Identifying solutions
Sep. – Oct. 2021
Selecting options
Oct. – Nov. 2021
Designing engagement
Nov. – Dec. 2021
Highlighted partners







SCR track
For this track, we’ve partnered with Enterprise Singapore to address core challenges within supply chain resilience such as end-to-end visibility, supply chain automations, supply chain analytics and supply chain sustainability.

Key dates
Scoping challenges
Round 1: Oct. – Nov. 2021
Round 2: Feb. – Mar. 2022
Identifying solutions
Round 1: Jan. – Feb. 2022
Round 2: Apr. 2022
Selecting options
Round 1: Mar. 2022
Round 2: May 2022
Designing engagement
Round 1 & 2: Jun. 2022
Highlighted partners






Safety track
With this track, we will go into depth with maritime safety-related innovation areas such as vessel navigation & tracking, safer berthing, collision avoidance as well as physical and mental crew health.

Key dates
Scoping challenges
Aug. – Sep. 2021
Identifying solutions
Sep. – Oct. 2021
Selecting options
Oct. – Nov. 2021
Designing engagement
Nov. – Dec. 2021
Highlighted partners

