SafePort project designed to improve safety at sea completes successful sea trials

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30 Sep 2011

BMT Group, the international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, is pleased to announce that the SafePort research project has completed initial sea

trials of a prototype vessel management system at Dublin port.  SafePort offers the first advanced vessel traffic management system designed for constrained ports, or waterways with high traffic densities, with integrated portable pilot unit.  SafePort delivers accurate, secure and reliable navigation and positioning information which in turn enables for safer and more efficient navigation and berthing.
The project which has received community funding and is being supervised by the European Global Navigation Satellite Signal (GNSS) Agency, was designed to address the need to maintain safety standards as the size of crews and its relative experience diminishes whilst increasing capacity in constrained waterways. Leading a consortium of nine organisations from across Europe, BMT was responsible for the development of the path planning capability which will help to reduce time and fuel wastage and taking the first tentative steps towards the autonomous ship.