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Orbita to launch crane OCR
Spanish process automation and
engineering specialist Orbita
Ingenieria is shortly to announce
a crane OCR solution to add to
its GateSuite gate automation
system.
Orbita was recently selected by
Grup TCB to provide a gate automation
system for 10 new entry
and exit lanes at Grup TCB’s
flagship facility, Terminal de Contenidors
de Barcelona (TCB).
This will be the third gate automation
project undertaken by
Grup TCB, following systems in
Valencia (Orbita) and Buenaventura,
Columbia (APS Technology
Group). The APS system includes
crane OCR, and Grup TCB
wants this for Barcelona as well.
Orbita is also improving its
GateSuite by evolving the data
capture technology, adding support
for multiple brands of OCR
cameras and improving the integration
interface. Francisco Cavanillas,
account manager for ports
and terminals, said this will boost
automation rates. Grup TCB’s
Valencia terminal now achieves
automation percentages in the
high 90s, but TCB will get 95-
98% right from the get go, he
expects.
The gate system for TCB includes
OCR for container numbers
and truck license plates, image
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Code readers. The RFID readers
are for a port authority-issued security
card that drivers must validate
by entering a PIN number.
Orbita will supply all the hardware
and its GateOS software to
integrate the OCR data with the
TOS, which in this case is Grup
TCB’s in-house system called AR-
GOS. The project also covers the
removal and relocation of TCB’s
existing Megaports radiation detection
portals and infrastructure
to the new terminal gates.
An interesting feature of the
project is the use of “validation
kiosks” where truckers will
also be able to check a transaction
prior to entering the terminal.
Truckers often know or
suspect, said Cavanillas, when
there is a problem with a gate
transaction and everyone benefits
if this can be identified out of the
main gate traffic flow. Where a
truck still presents with incomplete
or missing information the
driver will get a printed trouble
ticket with information on the
problem and who to call to resolve
it. They will then pull out of the
traffic flow into a separate lane.
“The new automated gates
will bring a lot of benefits to
everyone in the logistics chain,”
said Narcis Pavon, terminal and
operations manager at TCB. “All
of the current paperwork will
disappear, as every single operation
will be identified by a preadvised
PIN code that the truck
driver will input at the entrance
gate. The new process will allow
us to optimise terminal planning,
resource allocation and cost control,
while trucking companies
will be able to plan their schedules
better.”
The Port of Luka Koper in Slovenia
has completed a project to
replace its Cosmos TOS with
Tideworks Technology’s entire
suite of TOS solutions.
Replacing a TOS is complicated,
and it took Luka Koper
longer than initially expected.
Tideworks had to integrate its
software with other systems including
an in-house business system
called Tino. This was developed
by a third party, Actual IT,
approved by Customs and intertwined
with the port community.
As soon as the project began
Boris Susmak, head of IT at
Tideworks has announced a
contract to supply services to
Stockton Port Authority for its
new “M-580 Marine Highway”
barge service linking Stockton
with Oakland.
Earlier this year Tideworks’
sister company SSA Marine was
awarded the contract to provide
terminal services for this new
service at Stockton. Tideworks’
contract is with the port, to
deploy its Spinnaker Planning
Management System and Star-
Gate gate utility.
Tideworks will deliver the
solutions under a Software-as-a-
Service (SaaS) model. Stockton
will have no hardware on site.
“The TOS will be hosted via
Tidework’s data centre in western
Washington [Lynwood],”
said Mitchell Hall, senior sales
engineer at Tideworks. “As part
of the service, Tideworks will
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Stockton via SaaS
Tideworks will deploy its Spinnaker Planning Management System and Star-
Gate gate utility at the port of Stockton, but no hardware will be installed on site
manage all the infrastructure,
including OS upgrades/patches,
DB administration, application
software monitoring, back-ups,
etc.”
Users will access the TOS
through the internet or over a
VPN connection. “The applications
are hosted on the server
using Citrix tools. The application
sessions are run locally on
the server and the users interact
with the client sessions via a virtual
connection to the server,”
added Hall.
The TOS will treat all barge
moves the same as vessel moves
at a marine terminal, with both
inbound and outbound Baplie
files. Tideworks will take care
of all EDI as part of the service,
which is expected to go live in
Q2 2013. Stockton will pay a
monthly subscription, but there
is no annual license fee.
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Luka Koper and Ronald Robinson,
regional vice president
for Tideworks, led a team to
define necessary processes and
requirements and “set realistic
and achievable expectations”
for the conversion. “Integration
with Tino was extraordinarily
complex,” said Susmak, but by
collaborating with the port and
Actual IT, Tideworks managed
to achieve it “efficiently and cost
effectively”.
Luka Koper had been using
Cosmos for 10 years and so
transitioning to a new TOS was
also a major cultural change.
“Naturally, there was some
initial resistance to such a largescale
change; people become
accustomed to doing things a
certain way after so many years,
and now you are giving them
a completely new set of tools
to accomplish their tasks,” said
Robinson.
“Collectively, we engaged in a
training effort that was probably
several-fold what it might have
been in a start-up operation due
to this phenomenon,” he added.
Tideworks went live in Q4
2012, initially for containerised
cargo only, with other cargo
types to be added in the future.
Both parties describe the systems
conversion and deployment
process as “tricky” but Luka Koper
is very happy with the result,
and the service it received in the
implementation phase. The new
TOS and the Traffic Control
system with graphical interfaces
for CHE operators has helped
increase productivity, improve
yard inventory accuracy and reduce
re-handles.
Luka Koper credits Tideworks’
TOS, in conjunction
with “certain process changes”,
with lifting its gross crane rate
to 23.2 moves an hour and enabling
it to hit a record 100 moves
per vessel hour last month.
Israel’s HiTech Solutions (HTS) has announced a contract to install OCR
at the Super Terminais facility in Manaus, Brazil. The system will be delivered
and installed by HTS Brazil, the Brazilian Branch of HTS Israel
established along with its Brazilian partner, Ergos Technology. HTS is
currently planning the civil works to meet the deadline for project completion
in September. This project follows HTS’s installations in Brazil for
Tecondi at the Port of Santos (pictured) and Libra Terminais in Santos
and Rio de Janeiro.
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May 2013