Brazil’s Companhia de Docas do Espírito Santo (CODESA) has established the first Vessel Traffic Management Information System (VTMIS) at Victoria port. The VTMIS, by global firm Indra, targets to enhance safety and improve the efficiency in mooring operations, eventually transforming the port into the most technologically advanced port in Brazil.
The project is part of Brazil’s Port System Modernization Plan backed by the Secretariat of Ports of the Presidency of the Republic. This plan also includes Indra’s modernization of Santos, Brazil’s main port and one of the world’s largest.
Based on the proprietary iMARE system, the system affords greater safety when managing the movements of vessels within the waters of the port of Vitoria and streamlines mooring management.
The system incorporates all the information sent by radars, cameras, buoys, weather stations and automatic vessel identification systems so that operators can unmistakably pinpoint each boat’s position on a digital map and access the data regarding its cargo, origin or route. It also receives all up-to-the-minute information on sea conditions and can communicate with the ship’s bridge to coordinate entries or exits.
In addition, the system can send information to the port’s single window for digital, paperless management of all the administrative processing necessary for mooring and managing cargo.
According to Cristiano Alves, Director of Transport Operations and Defense at Indra in Brazil: “Securing precise supervision over traffic increases the rotation of the entry of cargo ships into Vitoria’s port harbor, which translates to swifter mooring intervals and the resulting increase of vessel traffic in the channel”.
The director also emphasized the value of statistical data that the system stores, explaining that they “help the Port Authority manage billing and income forecasting”.
CODESA chairman, Luis Claudio Montenegro, added that this system enables a full control of the access channel and mouth, as all data, including information on the winds, tides, weather, current, navigability, are managed with precision by the system.
