A importância da implantação do Vessel Traffic Management Information System (VTMIS) na modernização dos portos e na diminuição do custo Brasil: perspectivas e oportunidades referentes às atividades da autoridade marítima brasileira, com a implementação do VTMIS

Abstract

Brazil has approximately 7.4 thousand km of coastline and more than 30 public ports, which are involved in freight transport activities, where growth is evidence, both in terms of the number of vessels and the volume of cargo transported. The need to increase the quantitative and qualitative information of vessels transiting Brazilian Jurisdictional Waters (AJB), with a view to making transporshipping safer. Currently, the Brasilian ports have a control activity considered, in relation to the ports of more developed countries, rudimentary, basically, by means of transponders, which allow the verification of basic data of position, speed and registration of the ship. This technological gap of Brazilian ports causes degradation in several aspects of port activities, for example: control of port events, repression of illegal activities, environmental monitoring, among others; which contributes negatively to what is established by the International Ship and Port Facility Code (ISPS Code) and in the scope of Maritime Situational Awareness. The National Secretariat of Ports is the agency that has the responsibility to act in the creation of policies and standards to increase the port sector, through the establishment of positive actions, which have been designated Port Logistic Intelligence. In this sense, the implementation of the Vessel Traffic Management Information System (VTMIS), whose financial resources are available in the Growth Acceleration Program, will contribute to increase the administrative and operational efficiency of the ports, providing better supervision of State. One of the most important features of VTMIS is the integration of date that allows the sharing of information in real time with stakeholders of various natures ( public and private). The objective of this work is to evaluate the actions taken by the Federal Government to increase the efficiency of the port sector through the implementation of VTMIS in the ports, focusing on feasible proposals, which will allow the increase the Maritime Situational Awareness, without any burden impacting on the budget resources of the Brasilian Navy.