VTMIS

In mid-November the Vessel Traffic Services System (VTMIS) was inaugurated in the Port of Aden, in the presence of Mr  Auke Lootsma from the United Nations Development Program  (UNDP). In recent weeks training courses were held in the VTMIS for employees and specialized technicians in the Port of Aden.  Tutorial sessions were held in the control building of the Maritime Department at Yemen Gulf of Aden Ports Corporation.

The training courses covered the method of operating the system and dealing with it, maintenance of the system’s devices, in addition to the practical training of the system’s supervisors to operate it, as well as how to train the operators of the system in the future.

The VTMIS is capable of real-time monitoring of sea traffic, and enhancing navigational safety and environmental protection by identifying, monitoring, planning and managing ship traffic.

United Nations Development Program has funded the purchasing of the system to enable the port to exchange information with the crews of naval vessels that will help to increase the efficiency of maritime traffic activities.

The system consists of two radars, an AIS unit, a weather forecast device, and five marine communication devices. All sensors were integrated into a single control unit and the system was successfully operated from  October.

Tractors

Also in the middle of November fourteen new Italian Mavi tractors arrived to join the fleet of equipment purchased during the current year, which was preceded by the arrival of cranes dedicated to carrying full containers and empties. New forklifts were commissioned.

Aden Container Terminal is witnessing great advances in the modernization of equipment and machinery, in accordance with pre-prepared plans represented in raising the efficiency of the container terminal and its operational and service capacity in line with the requirements of its customers from shipping lines and local merchants.

It is understood that the new land tractors and trailers are capable of carrying two containers in one move with a total weight of 75 tons. This will raise the pace of ship service, as the Container Terminal witnessed during the current year a noticeable increase in the handling rates of ships. In turn this had an impact in the great reduction in dwell time of ships and the speed of procedures for the exit of containers to the Customs of the free zone, and then to the local market.

Tug  Wadi Hateeb

With continuous follow-up from the Corporation’s leadership, represented by the Executive Chairman of YGAPC, Dr Muhammad Alawi Amzrabah and his deputy, Eng Abdulrab Al-Khulaqi, and the specialized technical team, the port’s tug Wadi Hateeb arrived on 23 November after completing its maintenance and repair work in the Republic of Djibouti.

This tug  carries out its towage tasks with vessels entering and departing the port and the port’s operational capacity has been enhanced.

It is noted that the Corporation's leadership has sought and is still seeking to raise the level of navigational activity, as it has paid great attention to developing and modernizing its marine and land machinery and equipment to improve its production capacity.

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