The North Adriatic Sea Port Authority - Ports of Venice and Chioggia - together with the Harbormasters of Venice and Chioggia, delivered to the pilots of the ports 3 new navigation aid units (Pilot Portable Units - PPUs – made up of antennas, softwares, laptops and tablets).
The event organised for the delivery of the PPUs and held on 23rd September was attended, among the others, by the President of the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority Fulvio Lino DI BLASIO, the Rear Adm (UH) Piero PELLIZZARI Italian Coast Guard, Maritime Director of Veneto Region – Venice Harbormaster, Cap. Dario Riccobene - Harbormaster of Chioggia, Venice Chief Pilot Luigi Mennella and Chioggia Pilot Giuseppe Morello.
These new PPUs are able to indicate and locate vessels' position with an extreme precision and in real time, besides forecasting their position in the immediate seconds following the manoeuvre. Therefore, pilots can carry out their activities correctly, being provided in advance by very accurate data related to vessel’s performances, thanks to the use of high-precision maps specifically created to fit the features of these new devices.
Furthermore, on 5th October a training session for the Pilots of the Port of Venice and Chioggia was organised in order to provide all the instructions for the proper use of the new navigation aid units delivered within INTESA Project, deepening the most relevant features as positioning, high precision positioning, Extreme precise Heading, Rate of Turn sensor, AIS, system modes, Communication flow.
In these framework INTESA project means to standardize and integrate the monitoring and management procedures of the entire maritime transport process in the Adriatic Sea, to make it more efficient and safer through the cooperation between Italy and Croatia and the main ports authorities and harbormasters of the Adriatic Sea (Venice Trieste, Ravenna, Ancona, Bari, Rijeka, Ploce and Split).
