UK’s tech firm SRO Solutions has signed an agreement with Belfast Harbour to provide IBM’s Maximo asset management software licences as the port looks to increase digitalisation across its operations.

The city’s port is Northern Ireland’s principal logistics and distribution hub responsible for more than two-thirds of all seaborne trade. More than 1.75 million people and over half a million freight vehicles pass through the port annually, while 24 million tonnes of goods are managed and carried by ferries, containerships and general cargo vessels.