“Please Vote with Your Hands!” Busan Port Authority, Innovation Best Practices ... National Review Underway

Sharing and Expanding Achievements through Public-Level Evaluation and Benchmarking, Driving Private Sector Growth

Busan Port Innovation Excellence Case National Review Poster.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] Busan Port Authority (BPA) will conduct the ‘Public Evaluation of This Year’s Busan Port Innovation Best Practices’ through an online voting program from the 28th to December 5th.

The public evaluation is held with the purpose of assessing various innovation cases promoted in the public and private sectors of Busan Port throughout 2022 from the public’s perspective, awarding them, and utilizing the event as a platform to spread the achievements through mutual communication and benchmarking.

The evaluation will be conducted separately on ① eight outstanding innovation achievements of BPA and ② twelve innovation cases from private operators of Busan Port, and any citizen of the Republic of Korea can freely participate.

The online voting page can be accessed through the BPA website.

Among the evaluation targets, ① the eight outstanding innovation cases of BPA were selected through a first-round screening from about 70 excellent achievements promoted by all BPA departments throughout the year.

This year, various innovation cases in different fields such as ▲ resource circulation achievements of port construction waste ▲ reduction of fine dust at the port ▲ regulatory reform achievements in the Busan Port hinterland complex ▲ improvement of port operation efficiency using blockchain technology were included in the public evaluation.

The private sector evaluation targets are innovation cases contributed by private operators of Busan Port throughout the year to enhance competitiveness such as safety and operational efficiency of Busan Port, including ▲ innovation safety technology and infrastructure development cases by each business and ▲ cases of RPA introduction in port operations.

BPA is conducting an event to encourage participation from many citizens and port stakeholders in this online public evaluation by drawing 50 people to receive coffee gift certificates worth about 10,000 KRW.

Kang Jun-seok, President of BPA, said, “Our authority is constantly striving to create innovative achievements of Busan Port that the public can empathize with,” and added, “The discovered innovation cases will be spread to more ports and sites through collaboration with the port industry and local communities, leading private sector innovation growth.”