Santos electrification project

The project at the Luiz Antonio Mesquita Integrator terminal (Tiplam), carried out by GE Energy Connections for terminal management company VLI, has seen the time for a cargo to wait and load goods shorten from five days to 24 hours.

Mohammed Azeez, president & CEO of GE’s Power Conversion business, said: “The future of transport has come across the pivoting point to unlock more efficiencies and productivity and that is enabled by electrification and digitilisation. Both technologies are bringing multifaceted benefits to reduce costs as well as to optimise transporting management.”

GE’s Power Conversion has delivered a full scope of work to the port including a main and a complementary substation, 10 e-houses and electrical and automation systems that provide power generation and control to Tiplam.

In addition, as an initiative to digitalise the port infrastructure, GE has also provided a customised software to optimise vessels’ traffic management, further improving transport efficiencies. The software provides an overview of fleet activities at the harbour, bringing each individual vessel in line with the fleet’s requirement regarding time needed for loading goods and shortening or eliminating polluting queues at the terminal.

GE’s Power Conversion business, a business unit of GE Energy Connections, designs and delivers power conversion projects which specialise in advanced motor, drive and control technologies that evolve industrial processes towards a cleaner, more productive operation.