Abstract:
SAFEPORT safety system aims to daily reports to Sines harbour administration,
potencial emergency situations regarding ships operation in port areas caused by extreme
weather-oceanographic conditions, that may occur in the next three. It consists of a set of
numerical models and a qualitative risk assessment and forecasting. It uses forecasts provided
offshore of the area under study of sea agitation, wind and tide. The characterization of the
response of the free and moored ships at a berth is performed using the numerical models
which deals with formulations in the frequency and time domain. The system issue alerts,
through danger levels associated with risk levels of exceedance of recommended values for
movements and forces imposed on ship mooring systems. SAFEPORT can be adapted to any
port. So far, it has been developed and adapted to three terminals of the port of Sines, where
three different ships were simulated. This paper presents the developments made to date of
the safety system, in terms of its implementation and validation. The numerical models run
every day, in real-time mode, in a computer cluster and the system provide forecast results for
the next 72 hours. The results are disseminated on a web page and a mobile application in a
variety of formats.
