Smart container ports combined with digital transformation, applying science and technology to management and exploitation. Automatic container gate, autogate applied at Da Nang port with many technological solutions.
Da Nang Port Joint Stock Company said that Da Nang Port is the first unit in Vietnam‘s seaport system to successfully apply smartgate smart container ports in business activities.
Previously, in May 2021, at the 16th Da Nang City Technical Innovation Contest, the electronic port software solution – ePORT and smartgate smart container portal of the author group of Da Nang Port Joint Stock Company and Vi Nam Information Technology Business and Solution Co., Ltd. also won the first prize from the Organizing Committee of the contest.
This solution also won the third prize of the Vietnam Science and Technology Innovation Award. This is a software that helps dispatch container trucks in and out of the port through an application on a smartphone to help save time and effort, open and close barrie, read loads, recognize license plates are done completely automatically and information is reported via app or SMS to help the management process be transparent. easy and effective.
According to Mr. Le Quang Duc, Deputy General Director of Da Nang Port Joint Stock Company, automatic container gates and autogates are applied at Da Nang port by many technological solutions such as: container code recognition by ACCR algorithm combined with artificial intelligence, license plate recognition, trailers, PLC control barrie opening and closing, etc reading the electronic terminal index; using robots (RPA) to execute orders; send information via the driver‘s mobile app…
As a result, customers can check in anywhere with an internet connection, shorten delivery and receipt time, save costs in printing, storing records, documents and all digitized information. This is also the first smartgate smart container port to be applied in Vietnam‘s port system.
This smart and automated solution facilitates drivers and shippers to achieve two important goals: paperless, contactless.
Mr. Le Quang Duc affirmed that the application of smart container ports combined with digital transformation, the application of science and technology to management, exploitation and production operation has brought economic efficiency to the unit.
A representative of Da Nang Port Joint Stock Company said that the operation of automatic container gates and autogates has minimized waiting time, reduced costs for customers, increased objectivity, information transparency and minimized errors. At the same time, the smooth coordination between the departments is markedly improved.
It is known that not only applying smart container ports, this year, Da Nang Port will continue to invest in and upgrade infrastructure for information technology, warehousing infrastructure, and equipment to effectively implement the digital transformation strategy that has been built, towards the goal of digitizing “one infrastructure, a database“ and customer–centric.