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Security: Gate Bottlenecks

Automation is the ‘end goal’

18 Nov 2009

Automation is the “end goal” of a gate system, says Visy’s John Lund.

A pre-gate high-resolution damage inspection portal (line scan imaging) that collects OCR data and stores images in the Visy database, which can be used to challenge damage claims. In place at the Finnsteve terminal, Vuosaari, Helsinki

He uses the Port of Helsinki’s Vuosaari Harbour gate system as an example. Within the port, there are the port authority, three competing terminals – Multi-Link, FinnSteve and SteveCo – and Finnish customs, all using a different version of Visy Access Gate.

The system is designed so that a truck can enter the main gate, go to the SteveCo terminal and drop off a box, drive to FinnSteve and pick up a box, clear customs and exit the port all in a single trip. It incorporates damage inspection imaging and an elaborate traffic guidance system.

John Lund has just relocated to London to head up a new Visy UK operation.  The company has three major gate systems installed in the UK – at Tilbury, Grangemouth and DFDS Immingham.

“We think there are great opportunities in the UK in the future,” says Mr Lund.

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