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Currently, the port can handle container vessels up to 3,000 TEUs capacity. [18] For capacity augmentation, Tuticorin Port has taken up various infrastructural development projects under the National Maritime Development Programme (NMDP). The Port achieved a record of handling 5 lakh TEU's in 2012-2013 surpassing the target fixed by Shipping ...
Data is gathered from in excess of 18,000 AIS equipped volunteer contributors in over 140 countries around the world. [6] Information provided by AIS equipment, such as unique identification, position, course , and speed , is then transferred to the main Marine Traffic servers for display via the website in real time.
Shri A. Subbiah, IAS chairman, Tuticorin Port Trust & Chairman and managing director, Sethusamudram Corporation Limited Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project ( lit. ' Setu Ocean Shipping Canal Project ' ) is a proposed project to create a shipping route in the shallow straits between India and Sri Lanka .
One system that does to this is Fulcrum Maritime Systems Limited's Vessel Tracking Service which uses the latest data rich satellite application technology to enable electronic catch reports to be sent from the vessel to the VMS directly and automatically sends the report and vessel position data to the appropriate RFO or Regulatory Fishing ...
STM seeks to create an organized traffic management entity called Sea Traffic Coordination Center(STCC) that will act as a central hub maintaining a record of all vessels at sea using the AIS and/or radar, enabling the distribution of vessel routes between ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore. The STCC together with the AIS and/or radar allows:
The LRIT regulation will apply to the following ship types engaged on international voyages: All passenger ships including high-speed craft, Cargo ships, including high-speed craft of 300 gross tonnage and above, and; Mobile offshore drilling units. These ships must report their position to their flag administration at least four times a day.
Karaikal Port received its first Gearless Panamax [3] vessel in November, 2009 and became the first Commercial port on Tamil Nadu coast to do so. The port also has the distinction of being the only private port to export cargo belonging to power equipment major Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), which is a government agency. [4]
Data recording was automated when the equipment became available, and later precise position data was integrated into the data sets. Multibeam sonar with GPS position data corrected for vessel motion and combined in real time is the state of the art in the early 21st century.