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Activating Offshore Businesses & Building World Class Ports - Speech at Portech Asia 2007

Operating a port as busy as Singapore 's is immensely complex, and PSA has managed this complexity through constant innovation and continued investment in more effective technological solutions.

To meet the exacting demands of the global market place, PSA is constantly innovating through automation and the use of intelligence systems to enhance our customers' hubbing operations and competitiveness. Today, PSA is a world leader in port technology, and its operations are managed on a network of more than 300 advanced servers. Applications designed in house, such as CITOS? and PORTNET?, have given PSA the edge to achieve greater levels of productivity.

Computer Integrated Terminal Operations System (CITOS?) commands and controls highly complex transhipment operations in our four container terminals in Singapore . CITOS? is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that co-ordinates and integrates all aspects of port operations, including berth planning, yard planning, stowage planning, and resource allocation. With CITOS?, PSA has a powerful tool that allows the port to plan and manage its equipment and people real-time seamlessly and flexibly.

PORTNET? is the world's first nation-wide, business-to-business(B2B), port and shipping e-community, providing integrated services to shipping lines, hauliers, freight forwarders, shippers and local government agencies. It handles all electronic container data passing through PSA Singapore Terminals efficiently and speedily. Running on an internet-based computing environment, customers can locate the status of their container over the internet anytime from anywhere in the world, without the need to go through their Singapore offices. Its 8,000 users generate an average of 100 million transactions annually

By capitalising on its IT strengths and operational capabilities, PSA helps its customers complete their operations in the shortest time possible. In addition, PSA provides “catch-up?services for ships with demanding schedules to make tight connections. This is particularly significant in light of the industry trend of deploying ultra large containerships- this means that ports have to be more efficient and productive to handle the increased capacity, otherwise, vessels will have to prolong their port stay and our customers would have to incur additional costs.

PSA Singapore Terminals' investment in technology has enabled it to automate some of its operations. Introduced in 1997, the paperless Flow-Through Gate system, is a fully automated system that can verify the identity of the truck driver, the vehicle and the container load with customs clearance documentation within 25 seconds of the truck's arrival.

Another innovation developed in-house by PSA is its Remote-controlled Overhead Bridge Cranes at Pasir Panjang Terminal. These cranes have the capability to stack containers nine high, creating a highly concentrated yard storage capacity. This automated system allows an operator to handle up to six cranes by remote control in the comfort of an air-conditioned room.

In China , we currently have port projects in Dalian , Tianjin , Fuzhou , Guangzhou , Dongguan and Hong Kong .

Dalian Container Terminal and Dalian Port Container Terminal are natural deepwater ports strategically located at the entrance of Bohai Rim, serving as the gateway to Northeast China and as a hub port to the Bohai Rim. The two terminals are linked to an inland container transportation network that reaches the hinterland of Northeast China .

Tianjin is the gateway port for northern China . It is one of the largest ports in China and serves a hinterland area of about 4.5 million square kilometres that covers the municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin . Operational since January this year, Tianjin Port Alliance International Container Terminal (TACT) operates 4 linear container berths at the Tianjin Port North Harbour Area.

Tianjin Port Pacific International Container Terminal (TPCT) will be a mega container terminal starting operations in January 2008. It will have a capacity of 4 million TEUs and will be able to handle the mega vessels plying the world's oceans today.

PSA has two port projects in Fuzhou .


(October 25,2007)

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