Securing Transit Containers

The project is aiming to improve the containers’ tracking through systematic approach and standardized security procedures that will enable the immediate and automatic identification and tracking of a sealed container during its transportation between different container terminals.

Specific Objectives:

1. To increase cooperation levels among port authorities.
2. To identify and prototype the business processes involved in the security procedures of containers in each port.
3. To realise online monitoring and security surveillance.

Main Activities:

• Documentation
• Evaluation of the existed container handling processes both at —intra“ and —inter“ port activities.
• Identification of common security threats regarding the container handling procedures.
• Assessment of users / decision makers’ requirements regarding the monitoring and securing of containers handling based on the existed EU regulations.
• Development of reference models that standardize the required steps of the port activities for the containers’ monitoring and securing.
• Development of a web application that monitors the handling of the containers that move across the maritime supply chain of the partners’ port authorities.
• Pilot operation and evaluation of the web application for containers‘ monitoring and securing.