To Bari the event of closing of the JOYFUL project has held



Today to Bari, near the Great Hotel of the Nations, the event of closing of the JOYFUL project (Generalized Automatic exchange of port Information has held Area), financed from the E.T.C.P. Greece-Italy 2007/2013, in the course of which the Harbour Authority of the East has introduced the results of the initiative that, started in 2012, has allowed to realize the Port Community System (PCS) of the ports of the East in partnership with the Polytechnic of Bari, Sisinflab department of the professor Of Sciascio, with the Harbour Authority of Igoumenitsa and the Computer and Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus". The system allows to distribute advance computerized services to passengers, operators and institutions second the national strategies of innovation and simplification of Public Administration, strategies that the Harbour Authority of the East has remembered to have already married with conviction from some years. Moreover the system allows to place the bases of PCS of the Harbour Authority of Igoumenitsa with the realization of the module of control of the traffic fleeting.

The Port Community System is a computer science platform that allows the intelligent and sure exchange of information between subjects private publics and of the marine-harbour cluster; PCS optimizes, manages and automates the harbour and logistic services creating efficient processes, reducing the times of the procedures and reducing to the maximum the use of paper documents. JOYFUL it is the Port Community System of the Ports of the East with which some harbour processes are managed computer science and with which they are offered, to passengers and operators, innovative informative services besides connection wi-fi free to Internet in the areas of pause of the passengers. JOYFUL all the harbour process monitors constantly and in real time, for every ferry boat in departure from the port of Bari, from the procedure of emission of the Security Card until the arrival of the ship to the destination port. It supplies information on the state of embarks, the conditions weather, the timetables of arrival and departure of the ships and, through the functionality of tracking, notification to the passengers the exact position of the ships while browsing and the times of arrival. All the travel information come so visualized directly on devices furnish of the users, which smartphone, tablet, notebook allowing, in completely free way constant and timely updates on the timetables of boarding and eventual delays of the ships. Information detailed, in particular on the practicability, are returned available also the haulers who, through these services, can so decide best covered the possible one in order to reach the destined boarding to they, let alone online to demand the authorizations for the access in port and the areas of security. All the information generated from Joyful, are moreover accessible in port by means of appropriate interactive kiosks.