Interview with Nico Wauters, CEO at T-Mining

As container shipping continues to digitalise, securing the container release process remains a key challenge for carriers, terminals and logistics providers. With interoperability, cybersecurity and industry-wide standardisation increasingly in focus, Antonia Saratsopoulou, Managing Editor at Container News, spoke with Nico Wauters, CEO of T-Mining, about the vulnerabilities of current container release processes, the shift away from PIN codes, and the challenges of establishing a secure and interoperable global standard. 1. Container release processes still vary considerably between ports, terminals and carriers. From a security perspective, where are the most significant vulnerabilities in the current container release process?