Al Medcenter Container Terminal of Gioia Tauro is carried out with success the update of the operating system



Contship Italy has announced that the Medcenter branch Container Terminal (MCT), that it manages the terminal for containers of the port of Gioia Tauro, has realized between 13,00 and the 19,00 hours of last Thursday the update of the operating system of the terminal in the respect of the times, the budget and without some obstacle. All the operating activities are suspended in order to transfer the data from the current system towards suite NAVIS N4. After a preparatory phase which lasted 16 months and 40 thousand business hours, the migration has demanded only little hours, with a verification of the corrected transfer shortly before to resume the operations to the hours 19:00 with the first three cranes continuations from others three.

"All the business - Carmine Crudo has commented, general manager of MCT whose responsibilities include the service of information technology - is based on modern and efficient it system and we is less not. Considered the dimensions of the project, could be charged some difficulty, something that did not work. In our case, thanks to the detailed planning, to the training and the experience of the involved people - it has emphasized - the migration has been a success total, in the full respect of the times and the budget. Now we are ready to collect yields of the training program even if the users need to familiarize with the new system, and we expect an impact in the first days in order to recover the rear job. They are sure that the challenge will be exceeded and that the abilities of our men will allow to maximize the benefits of the new system in favor of our customers. I wish to thank all the people involved in the project for the dedication and the engagement that have allowed to transform this passage in a success, in specific the all colleagues of the Service MCT IT and all operating together with our partner DSP and group NAVIS. The service IT will remain careful, placed side by side from one team of technological support of the partner who for a sure period will remain to Gioia Tauro in case of difficulty. Thanks to all they for the carried out great job".

"To implement this type of technology to already existing infrastructures - it has observed the managing director of MCT, Domenico Bagalà - it will be able to serve in order to grow producing as ours considered already of excellent level by our customers. This investment will assure to terminal MCT the possibility to be ready in order to answer to the requirements on wide scale of the activity of hub of transhipment. The update of the program has taken place while in large square they were you anticipate 47,000 teu and with a sure number of ships in phase of completing of the dock operations and other ready ones for being moored and operated with the resumption of the activity. A slow down on the dock operations has been unavoidable to the resumption. We thank our customers for their understanding. It has been an enormous enterprise and we have had to manage some operations is with the old one that with the new system to the aim to pander to the requirements of the customer".