Starting with the next one June 24th the Port System Authority of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea (AdSP MTC) will make a single digital platform available to operators and control authorities to manage maritime traffic in the ports of Naples, Salerno and Castellammare di Stabia, from the arrival of the ship to unloading of the goods, until their final release, enormously speeding up port operations and making the entire system even more competitive. As the Authority itself says, it is the revolution of the Port Community System (PCS), the European standard for managing port information flows via a single digital platform. Last Thursday, 13 June, in the AdSP Committee Room, a meeting was held to present and test the functioning of the PCS for the three ports of Campania.
THE SUMMIT
They were present at the meeting Donato LiguoriDirector General for integrated sustainable mobility policies, logistics and intermodality of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MIT); Giuseppe Grimaldi, General Secretary AdSP MTC; And Ugo Vestri, responsible for the procedure. Officials from the AdSP MTC, the Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM), managers of the company DBA Pro, which developed the PCS, attended the test presentation; officials of the Guardia di Finanza and managers of RAM-Logistica Infrastrutture Trasporti.
Currently being implemented in Italian and European ports, the PCS is triggering a decisive change in the methods of sharing data on maritime traffic between the actors involved (terminals, shippers, freight forwarders, hauliers, maritime agents and control authorities), reducing time of import and export operations of goods. In October 2023 this AdSP participated in the MIT tender to access the PNRR funds that finance the PCS and today, with a certain reactivity, it is substantially ready. The PCS of Campania is based on the PCS of the port of Livorno, adopted with a specific Convention signed last February between the AdSP of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea and that of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea.
During the meeting it was possible to verify how the PCS of the ports of Campania is ready and functioning perfectly. It was tested live, interrogating the system on ships actually present in port with their actual cargo. The one presented today is the PCS Base, operational from next year June 24th. It will be followed by an Advanced PCS with a series of further tools that exhaust its functionality, such as the connection to the PMIS, the single national interface for sending the declaration formalities of arriving and departing ships. In other words, the so-called “single window”. The Advanced PCS will be activated by 2026, taking into account the necessary technical IT implementation needs.
LIGUORI, GRIMALDI AND ANNUNZIATA
