LOC, part of AqualisBraemar LOC Group, has announced the launch of a new digital solution to enhance safety of marine operations within ports and harbours.
The service will be based on the development of a digitised training library for port-based ship pilots, creating a structure for the retention of pilotage experience, and reducing risk of marine operations with 360-degree aerial views for pilot operations using drone technology.
The solution improves vision of restricted manoeuvring areas, providing better ‘situational awareness’ and demonstrates ‘safe port’ marine operations and management practices.
It addresses the increased risk profile of marine operations in ports, with larger ships required to manoeuvre in increasingly relatively small, ports & port basins, and as logistical schedules become tighter.
In developing this solution, LOC combined its digital capabilities with its long-term expertise across marine assurance and risk, and in-house practical experience in port management, pilotage operations and tug handling/operations, to create a fit-for-purpose solution.
Clive Sheard, ports and Shipyards consultant, LOC Australia, said, “Our experience positions us to provide independent analysis and design for the capture of video libraries tailored to given ports, and unique port risk profiles; and create platforms which can be endorsed within port safety management systems”.
“In Australia, drone services, and digital recording of drone deployments, are already being rolled out across several port operators and pilotage services and, as such, the value of having a drone perspective is already recognised,” he said.
