Located in a natural bay of the Adriatic coast, in the Molise Region, the Port of Termoli is classified by Italian Law 84/1994 as a port of regional and interregional economic relevance. Termoli is classified as a multifunctional port and its operations are mainly related to tourism (passenger & ferries, yachting), fishing, commercial activities and shipyards. It is administered by the Molise Region, which is responsible for planning, design, implementation and maintenance of infrastructure interventions concerning the port area. The Agency for Hospitality and Tourism of Termoli (AAST) participates to the project activities being an instrumental body under control and supervision of the Region. Since August 2022, the port of Termoli has become part of the port network authority of Bari, Brindisi, Manfredonia, Barletta, Monopoli.
This pilot represents the design and development of an IT platform for Environmental Monitoring System (EMS) integrated in the port context. The environmental monitoring system design include several functions like estimates of GHG and pollutant emissions from ships and port installations.
The software is based on a micro services architecture, able to manage IOT protocols, support analyzes on big-data and create the digital twin of the port environment through the representation of the port in a 3D and 2D maps, highlighting the ships, their routes and the interested systems inside the port.
The platform collects all the vessel info in a database thanks to AIS (Automatic Identification System) data provided by Marine Traffic service in order to show the vessels positions, routes in a near real time modality and evaluate their CO2 emissions inside the port (the so called carbon footprint). This platform is a convergence for the data collection and analysis that may evolve over time thanks to the addition of new information sources, whatever sensors or databases.
The pilot system has been designed to collect and analyze, useful information for assessing the impact of port activities, to support sea cleaning activities and analyze carbon footprint emissions. It is also open to exchange data with other platforms presented in the ports when required.
Project EFINTIS will have a positive influence in terms of sustainability by promoting the adoption of ICT tool and by increasing the competitiveness of the multimodal transport. With the EMS pilot action, will not only increase general operability of Termoli’s port but it will reduce environmental impact as an addition.
The tool realized could be shared with regional stakeholders acting in the environmental field and so it could be very useful to automatize the collection of environmental data, make analyses, defining alerts with positive impact on environmental protection.
Integration with other systems
The result of the pilot action is the implementation of an Environmental Monitoring System able to support sustainability goals of the Termoli’s port trough an IT system able to collect, memorize, analyze environmental data (air, water, ground). Such system allows to evaluate impact of port activities in terms of carbon footprint due to the maritime traffic.
A preliminary evaluation on Termoli’s EFINTIS pilot action suggest possible links among the IT platform for Environmental Monitoring System (EMS) and the others ICT solutions which was deployed for Termoli port system, by the past SUMO, ALMONIT projects and the ongoing FRAMESPORT project.