Abstract
The international maritime industry is on a current wave of digitalization and there is a dire need to enable an effective prediction of the different digital solutions, especially in terms of international implementation as well as regulatory requirements related to the same. When assessing new e-navigation (e-nav) solutions, these are not yet implemented, i.e., there is no possibility to validate technology on basis of lagging indicators - indicators which express actual performance within quality of the service to which the solution is targeted. One must instead turn to leading indicators - indicators which, based on a hypothesis, express expected performance within quality of the service to which the solution is targeted. The more valid the hypothesis, the more valid the leading indicators will be to express the new solutions' effectiveness. In this paper, we have validated KPIs from the Baltic and International Maritime Council's Shipping KPI Standard in light of their suitability in expressing actual performance, hereby validating the quality and suitability of a set of leading indicators from the port call scenario from the Research Council of Norway supported SESAME Solutions 2 project.