MSC Cruises anticipates own system of planning of the routes and monitoring of the fleet



Today in the port of Naples, on board of MSC Fantasy, the top management and the officials of MSC edge Cruises the regarding aspects have introduced all safety of a cruise ship and, during the visit to the flagship of the fleet of the company, the technologies to the vanguard for navigation, the procedures in order to on board guarantee the quality and alimentary safety of the produced ones served and politics of continuous formation put into effect for the crew and the earth staff are illustrated in particular.

For alimentary safety, Enrico Borniotto, managing director of MSC Italcatering, the company of the group MSC has explained that manages the service of supplying of food & beverage for all the fleet, "the company has decided to follow all directly the productive and distributive row. This allows us to guarantee the traceability of all on board the served alimony, assuring to the passengers an alimentary quality that otherwise would not be possible".

With the same philosophy, to the aims of safety and the control of navigation, in years MSC Cruises it has developed an own system that allows to plan and to monitor the routes of every unit. One calls Voyage Planning & Monitoring System (VP & MS) and, thanks to I use it of the satellite, allows with the earth offices of the company to know in real time the exact position of the ship in any part of the world it is found, with a frequency of update of a second and an inferior margin of error to five meters, finding immediately eventual anomalies in the route, the speed and the corrected operation of the main present systems on board.

"In our offices of Sorrento - Emilio La Scala has confirmed, general manager of the MSC technical department Cruises - we are able to at any moment to reproduce all the main data of navigation, as if we found ourselves effectively on the bridge of ognuna of our ships. The system is able to supply in real time given to technical which the Heading to us (direction of the ship), the Installments of Turn (the evolutions of the ship), the Xte (the eventual one outside broken expressed in miles), the BTW (direction to follow) in case of selected route, the Course & Speed underground (real speed of the ship). The same data are visible to the earth offices of the company also for the boats that navigate in proximity of ships MSC Cruises".

Software VP & MS offers also the possibility to record navigation and the maneuvers in port of every ship, to signal an area to risk and to have information on a port or a feature of sea through annotations on chart. The system is developed in the years from the crocieristica and perfected company in collaboration with Dutch society QPS, specialized in the realization of systems of satellite survey, and with the APSS, consortium that groups a series of societies specialized in the survey of the data of navigation. MSC Cruises has announced that it is working in order to interfacciare the software to the weather one, so as to directly overlap the meteorological data on the shielded one of the chart.

The MSC representatives Cruises have explained that using this software the commanders of the technical department of the company they plan the routes of the routes and trace the "Plan of crossing" establishing the corridors that the ships must cover, on a level with how much happens in the aerial transport, and that this not only happens in the full respect the regulations dictated from international convention SOLAS, but also with the contribution of the pluridecennale marinaresca experience of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), shipowning group that manages a fleet of 464 container vessels that serve 200 lines, touching 145 Countries, 335 ports and five continents.

MSC Cruises has specified that the Plan of crossing, once traced, is shared with the commander of every ship during the pre-boarding encounters and eventual modifications are discussed and approved of collegialmente. Successively the route is sent on board and imported automatically on the ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display device and Information System). Besides the indication of the route of every ship, the system allows with the earth offices to know in real time other technical data, which the distributed and used power, the downturn, the number of generators in use, the type of fuel, the speed and other data that afford to assess that at any moment the emissions are reduced lessened and therefore the environmental impact. If necessary maneuvers became that they involve the escape of a ship from the which predetermined corridor, the commander acts of common agreement with the earth offices of the company.

"In order to guarantee to our hosts a vacation in full comfort and maximum safety - it has commented managing director of MSC the Cruises, Domenico Pellegrino - on board of every ship and in our earth offices an organization exists that works constantly "behind the scenes" in order to define every detail through reliable and precise procedures. In fact safety on board of the cruise ships is much wide one and articulated a topic that it regards every single aspect of the edge life, from the assessments for the access in ship to the verification of the hygienic-environmental conditions, from the medical assistance guaranteed 24 hours on 24 to the corrected conservation of the entire alimentary chain. The priorities are these that allow us to assure to the passengers that quality, that professionality and that authentic hospitality that we give always marks in world-wide the crocieristico panorama".