Vessel Traffic Management Systems (VTS) are to be installed at two Indonesian ports as container handling in the country increases.
Transas Marine, who will supply the systems, says that Indonesian ports are enjoying a steady performance and the number of containers handled there is expected to almost double by 2015.
“Operators of modern VTS systems are faced with new tasks when they have to monitor larger areas and significantly larger amounts of vessels. In such circumstances processes automation in VTS plays a very important role,” Chris Loizou, director, shore based systems, Transas Marine, told Port Strategy.
The new VTS systems will be installed at Samarinda and Banjarmasin ports.
They will be based on Transas’ flexible monitoring and surveillance solution, Navi-Monitor. They will collect, assess and integrate data from sensors to provide VTS operators with real time overview of ship traffic.
Transas will supply AIS base station T214, VTS database and solid state radars for small target detection.
The systems will facilitate the safe and efficient movement of marine traffic and reduce turn around time, increasing operational efficiency.
“VTS can provide a lot of benefits to the maritime authorities in terms of increasing efficiency of port facility use, improving terminal security measures and general decrease of vessel accidents in a port,” Mr Loizou added.
In addition, Transas will upgrade the current VTS systems at the Port of Semarang with a fully redundant AID base station T214.
Transas VTS systems are installed in more than 15 ports throughout Indonesia.
