Security Benefits

  • Enhances the already in place protection of the port / canal
  • Protect against acts of terrorism and international security issues
  • Provides container security via CSD
  • Vessel ID and Confirmation System provides additional layer of security
  • Improved and Advanced Risk Assessment and Capability
    • Security officials will have the information required to enact effective risk assessment and management decisions
  • Vessel Traffic Management System
    • Enhance Maritime Traffic Control
    • Checking Automated ID System (AIS) Data
    • Extended AIS Domain Awareness
  • Hull scanning / acoustical signature – reduce phantom ship risk
  • ‘Prior-to-Port’ scanning:
    • Lowers Maritime Security Risk
    • Provides narcotic and firearms interdiction teams with advance information
    • Provides accurate targeting and tracking
    • Provides intelligence agencies data mining and cross check tools
  • All technologies used are already proven technologies that can be deployed and functioning with known reliability
  • Empty containers can be tracked for port side management
  • Detection of subsurface contraband at a safe distance from ports and canals
  • Hull profile capability will identify anomalies on a ship’s hull prior to the ship arriving in port

Economic Benefits to the Port and Shipping Industry

  • Increases
    • Profits
    • Income stream and productivity of the port and the local economy
    • Local employment and productivity
  • Reduces
    • Maintenance cost by maintenance survey / reduce down-time
    • Claims & streamlines claim process
    • Cost to port clientele by reducing the per container liability requirements
    • Costly time moving empties around the shipyard by tracking empty containers
  • Provides
    • Source of additional revenue
    • Additional ‘layering’, enabling the re-allocation of security and manpower assets

Legal Compliance Benefits

  • Safe Port Act passed by US Congress Oct. 13, 2006
  • Department of Homeland Security mandated “Container Security Initiative” by January 2008
  • Adopted Container Security Initiative:
    • International Maritime Organization (IMO)
    • European Union
    • World Customs Organization
  • Support platform for the Maritime Interdiction Operation (MIO) as set forth under the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)
  • Complies with CSI, CTPAT and SOLAS
  • Provides
    • Total Maritime Domain Awareness (TMDA)
    • A tool to meet new International Maritime Organization (IMO) and Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) satellite monitoring

Industry Benefits

  • Real-time access to acquired container data
  • Speeding up the ‘ready-to-go’ status process
  • Increased scheduling of transits and more efficient vessel traffic flow
  • Acoustical scans (preventative maintenance)
  • Hull Scans

Scientific Benefits

  • Environmental Protection
  • Provide underwater scientific study labs
  • Advanced scientific capabilities including:
    • Atmospheric
    • Seismic
    • Oceanographic
   
System Benefits