Starting next June 24th the Port System Authority of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea (AdSP MTC) will make available to operators and control authorities athe only digital platform to manage maritime traffic in the ports of Naples, Salerno and Castellammare di Stabia, from the arrival of the ship to the disembarkation of the goods, up to its final release, enormously speeding up port operations and making the entire system even more competitive. It is the revolution of Port Community System (PCS), the European standard for managing port information flows via a single digital platform. Last Thursday in AdSP Committee Room, a meeting was held to present and test the functioning of the PCS for the three ports of Campania. Present at the meeting were Donato Liguori, general director 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 call for access to 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 June 24th. It will be followed by a Advanced PCS with a series of additional tools that extend 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. «The launch of the PCS is part of a broader state plan of around 250 million euros for the digitalisation of the logistics chain – explains Liguori. – The work done for the ports of Naples and Salerno – he continues – will constitute a fundamental reference for the country system as the achievement of a national and European standard on port digitalisation necessarily requires a solid local functioning of the individual ports”. The Basic PCS consists of the following parts: a portal, an ISTAT module, a ship travel manager, an incoming goods manifest, a document manager and finally a port tracking. The latter, as was underlined by Vestri, is the most strategic function of the apparatus, essentially containing all the information on the ship and its cargo, thus allowing us to trace the life cycle of the ship. Port tracking, for example, “overturns” information on exports, reducing a whole series of processing times for commercial and customs procedures. For example, by digitizing all the phases that lead to the release of a container, it allows a driver who needs to collect the container to book in time, thus reducing queues at port terminals and eliminating congestion of heavy vehicles entering and exiting a port . Furthermore, the digitalisation of the goods manifest and customs procedures in a single platform will in the future allow the PCS to be integrated with the Terminal Operating System (TOS), the digital standard for managing port terminals. Finally, the control authorities will also have a specific one at their disposal PCS in port tracking, provided by the Customs Agency, which will allow you to carry out a whole series of checks such as container weighing (VGM) and stock information, with all the related risk analyses. For Secretary Grimaldi «the development and testing of the PCS of the ports of Campania were very fast, considering that the Agreement with the AdSP of Livorno it dates back just four months ago. Such an IT system will have a significant impact on the port logistics chain, making it even more competitive.”
For the President of the AdSP of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea, Andrea Annunziata, lToday «shows how digital cooperation between Italian port systems is a winning model, allowing greater uniformity of procedures at a national level. PCS is recognized as the most advanced method of information exchange for the national and European port community. Optimize, manage, automate and make port import-export more fluid through a single data transmission. The activation of the PCS in the ports of Naples, Salerno and Castellammare di Stabia will make the exchange of information between public bodies, port operators and control bodies more intelligent and secure”.
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