The North Tyrrhenian Port Network Authority is to enhance its Tuscan Port Community System (TPCS), which digitalizes and simplifies information flows related to goods being imported and exported in the Port of Livorno.
Over the last few days, a call for tenders has been launched to upgrade the TPCS with a series of improvements, such as the implementation of new automatic interfaces for validating declarations transmitted to terminals, for sharing delivery orders and transferring customs declaration data for exporting goods.
The TPCS improvement package also includes updating the ISTAT module and its port tax calculation module, enhancing advanced goods and vessel statistics, and extending its booking management system to non-containerized goods as well (reservation of storage/collection, checking availability on information on goods in the system, interfacing with third-party systems to calculate the estimated time of arrival of vessels, allocation and modification of slots, etc.).
The contract is worth €547,000 + VAT. The call for tenders has been partially funded by the PNRR, which has made available €1 million to each Port Network Authority (PNA) for developing and implementing Port Community System (PCS) services.
‘Our TPCS has now become a strategic tool at the national level, so much so that it is now being used profitably not only by our Port Network Authority but also by Naples, Venice and Cagliari’s PNAs,’ said Managing Director Matteo Paroli.
“This is also why our port administration is continuing to invest significant resources in implementing the Port Community System. Our objective is to make it increasingly tailor-made to suit the needs of operators, control bodies and other PNAs,” he added, stressing that “everything that concerns the development of the System is now done in synergy with other ports, in a system-oriented logic that goes beyond the areas of competence of specific Port Authorities.”
Translation by Giles Foster
