The Harbour Authority of Livorno has introduced new computerized platform TPCS



Today near the Interporto Amerigo Vespucci, during a round table dedicated to the results reached in the within of the Mos4Mos, the European project for the development of the freeways of the sea, the Harbour Authority of Livorno has introduced its Tuscan Port Community System (TPCS), a computerized platform of type web service for the interchange and the visualization of the data between marine carriers, shippers, terminal, customs, terrestrial agencies of control publics and carriers. Draft of a system, developed inside of the Mos4Mos, that it is able to guarantee the control of the procedural and physical distance of the goods, from the moment in which it leave until the boarding or arrival point.

"the TPCS - Giuseppe Alati, managing has commented for the management of the integrated systems of the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports - is an optimal prototype introduced inside of the Mos4Mos". Wingeds have anticipated that soon the ministry will sign a protocol of cooperation with the Leighorn harbour agency in order to insert the Tuscan Port Community System inside Honey (Multimodal Interoperability for logistics and Environment sustainability), the project European pilot dedicated to the interchange of the data between the operators long all the logistic chain. "We believe - it has emphasized - than the Harbour Authority of Livorno can give a fundamental contribution to the Honey implementation".

In its participation the general secretary of the livornese Harbour Authority, Massimo Provinciali, has found that "the competitiveness and the attrattività of a port not only competes on its ability to contain the costs and to maximize the profits, but also on the efficiency of the services". Therefore - it has observed - the TPCS turns out wins: "it is because it is born on the thrust of a communitarian project (the Mos4Mos)", it is because "it favors the circulation of the information", that is "the possibility for everyone of the operators to approach the news of interest in fast way, intuitive and free".

The president of the Interporto Vespucci, Marco Susini, has evidenced how much is important today to create greater synergies between the ports and interposing to you, above all for Livorno that has an immensest flat area, with optimal abilities to penetration towards the markets of the Italy north. "The Interporto Vespucci - it has said Plum trees - can be an added value for the livornese port of call. No other port enjoys the same wide retroportuali spaces. The modern technologies, moreover, can serve to reduce the gap that paralyze the Italian logistics, with advanced costs to 40 billion euros". Costs that could be low-spirited, and not little, if technology RFID for the traceability of the goods were used in every interporto, thanks to which it becomes possible to monitor the distance of means from the interporto to the port with the simple one I use of a server and a chip to low cost. "the RFID - the production manager of the Interporto Vespucci has confirmed, Claudio Bertini - has a twofold advantage: coast little and corresponds to the requirement to favor the traffic fast and controlled of means long the corridor that connects the port to the interporto"

To conclusion of the round table the director of the Office is taken part also management and monitoring of the Agency of Customs, Antonio Romano, that he has shared project TPCS: "one joins - he has explained - in the track of the projects finalized to the simplification of the procedures of customs inspection". , he has said.