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The ports of Amburgo and Rotterdam are exchanged given on the timetables of arrival and departure of the ships
Companies of navigation and terminalisti can optimize own resources
June 22, 2018
The ports of Amburgo and Rotterdam have begun to exchange themselves for via data transmission given on the timetables of arrival and departure previewed and effectives of the ships that come or are directed to the two ports. The collaboration is before this type between two harbour ports of call of different nations and is activated within a under way project at the beginning of this year from the Harbour Authority of Rotterdam and the HVCC Hamburg Vessel Coordination Center, joint venture participated from the two main terminalisti of the port of Amburgo, that is the Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), that it stops 67% of the capital of the society, and the Eurogate, that it possesses remaining 33%.
Scope of the project is the exchange of data through a digital interface so that the navigation companies can optimize the employment of own ships and to they it turns the terminals operator can optimize I meanwhile use it of their resources, being profitable the two more competitive and efficient ports also thanks to the greater ability to reaction in case of changes of the schedule or other programs.
The partner of the project has explained that, for example, in case of expectable delays in the disembarkation and I forward of cargos which reached in port on board of the ships, the navigation companies can decide to reduce the speed of the ships in order to delay their arrival in port and for being able to benefit of a reduction of the fuel consumption. This turns out particularly important if of a duration of rather limited navigation as that than 24 hours between the ports of Amburgo and Rotterdam, route covered monthly gives about 80 portacontenitori ships: if a large one portacontainer of the ability to 18.000 teu is informed before the departure from Rotterdam that can travel to single 14 knots rather than to 18 knots, as initially previewed, in order to reach the terminal to Amburgo - they have evidenced the partner of the project - the bunker consumption would be reduced of about 22 tons, decrease that is equivalent to a cut of about 66 tons of the emissions of co2.
The managing director of HVCC, Gerald Hirt, has specified that this new type of collaboration between ports is done again in existence to an analogous cooperation for a long time in airport within through the Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM), a procedure in order to optimize the management of the air traffic through the exchange of information between airports, airlines and other operators of the field. "The Airport Collaborative Decision Making - it has specified Hirt - is a concept learned from the field of the aerial transport that ago reference to data and decisional processes shared in that field and of which it can benefit also the marine transport. The direct exchange of data between Amburgo and Rotterdam is the first logical step towards the construction of a Network of ports in all Europe, in particular with the scope to increase the ability to react to the delays and therefore to relatively supply to the companies of navigation and the terminalisti a better and more reliable support to the information on the arrival and the departure of the ships. We would want to invite other European ports - it has added Hirt - to put themselves in contact with we and to benefit of these advantages.
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