Porto de Leixões
Case study
Porto de Leixões in Portugal, located down the river of the city of Porto is the country’s largest commercial port, handling some 14 million tonnes of freight cargo every year at an average of almost 40,000 per day. In 2004, a plan was developed to combine all of the port’s management and security operations into one site. It finally came to fruition in September 2006 when, as a result of a €1.4m investment, a new operations room unifying security monitoring and shipping traffic control was opened in the historic former harbor master’s office.
The new center contributes to greater safety of the port area and to more efficient operations. Its allows the supervision and implementation of good environmental practices, as the planning, safety, environmental, pilotage and towage operations are now all concentrated in the same zone of the Port of Leixões. As such, integrated coordination and faster response is possible in case of emergencies.
The new center is the largest facility of its kind in Portugal and consists of a Coordination Center and a Safety Center adjacent to each other. Both centers are equipped with some of the most advanced technology available today, enabling the operating team to react quickly to any emergency situation, as well as to carry out the day-to-day port routine more effectively.
Two adjoining rooms have been outfitted with a total of 45 of Barco’s new 50-inch OverView mDR+50-DL DLP cubes. These have been arranged in a 7x3 video wall set-up in the Coordination Center, and an 8x3 status and control video wall in the Safety Center.
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| Date | November, 2006 | ||||||
| Location | PORTUGAL | ||||||
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