SMART PORT - The port is completely connected via a communications network and fully integrated with its environment (i.e. all stakeholders of the industry) as well as other ports and logistics actors around the globe. 
  DEVELOPER PORT - The port and the hinterland players are connected through one single digital environment, the advantages of the previous stages are extended to even more stakeholders.
  ADOPTER PORT - The port and immediately involved organisations (regularly: authority, operator, customs, etc.) started to integrate their (information) systems in order to achieve better communication.
  MONITOR PORT - Individual automations in the port might emerge. Port authority, operator and related organisations in the near proximity of the port maintain their own processes and databases as well as started to digitalise them individually. 
  ANALOG PORT - Automation do not exist. The port has no or less knowledge about digitalisation and thus, do not know how to change or is not willing. 		 Ports Digital Map is based on Robert Philipp (2020) / Digital Readiness Index Assessment towards Smart Port Development / Sustainability Management Forum (Journal) / Special Issue: Sustainability in Ocean Shipping, Springer, [Forthcoming]. Characteristics are made of measurments - management, human capital, functionality (IT), technology and information.