Latest Episode : 2026/10/5 delivery
Transforming "Osaka, the City of Water" with data: New businesses born from ship location information.
Our guest this time is Mr. Ohba from Shinko Transport Co., Ltd., which handles the water transport of materials and equipment on Osaka's rivers and ports. We will hear about their "Boat Mark" initiative, which started with the operation management of their own vessels and now shares location information across multiple vessels, including sightseeing boats and cleaning boats, to promote safe river use. Furthermore, we will discuss the possibilities of new businesses that can arise from vessel location information, such as water taxis, tourism, and disaster prevention. Through the Ship Data Ideathon to be held on November 19th in collaboration with Kindai University and LBMA Japan, we will explore their vision for how to transform "Osaka, the City of Water" in five years.
Speaker：Tadashi Ohba, Representative Director, Shinko Transport Co., Ltd.
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Location Weekly Japan is a podcast run by LBMA Japan (Location Business & Marketing Japan), a general incorporated association that promotes business marketing services using location data. Every week, we interview management and business personnel from member companies, introduce the latest examples of location data usage, and share notable events around the world, as well as behind-the-scenes stories that can only be heard here.
As we are an organization with many IT-related members, you will hear a lot of foreign words, but in this podcast we will introduce examples of how location data is being used in a way that is as easy to understand as possible, so please feel free to listen.
MC: Kuniyuki Kawashima (Representative Director of LBMA Japan)
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