A Indústria 4.0: oportunidade e desafio para o transporte marítimo brasileiro

Abstract

Long sea shipping enabled economic growth in several countries, enabling access to consumer markets and products unavailable in the domestic environment. The low cost and capacity to transport large volumes are the differentials of this mode of transport. The competitiveness of merchant shipping is enhanced by the technological embarkation on its ships and in its service rendering processes. The advances of the so-called industrial revolutions were assimilated by the transport made by the sea in order to enhance the offer of this service. The emergence of a new technological phenomenon with a great impact on the production and provision of services could again be a factor in the optimization of this sector of the economy, requiring understand-ing and adaptation in countries that participate in the international maritime transport system. This research aims to analyze how Brazil, a country located among the so-called “developing economies”, can prepare for a new technological paradigm in its maritime transport, guarantee-ing it the necessary structure for new ways of providing the maritime transport service. The study was undertaken by a qualitative research, of an exploratory nature, with analytical-de-scriptive orientation, through analysis of available academic bibliography and reference data-bases that diagnose the phenomenon analyzed in countries chosen for the purpose of this re-search and in Brazil. The bibliography and available data indicate that the configurations of the transport offer in the world impose great barriers to new entrants. At the same time, structural problems of a domestic nature were found that demand attention in Brazil. The insertion of maritime transport in Brazil at the time of the ascendancy of a new technological paradigm should be guided more by the increase of its basic infrastructure capable of giving access of its production to more qualified ports. No significant opportunities were perceived for the devel-opment of a long-haul merchant nav