Objective
Maritime industries in the EU had a turnover of 159 bn and employed 1545000 people in 1997. They added value of 70 bn 1 of GDP and contributed 23 bn 33 of VA to EU funds. The project will increase the competitiveness of European industrial ports by increasing port throughput by 10. It will achieve this by improving the accuracy of calculation of under keel clearance UKC from 50 cm to 10 cm enabling more ships to pass through the ports during a tide. The project will also increase real time ship movement forecasting and position accuracy this will reduce accidents and groundings in narrow waters which will improve safety and increase port throughput. It will introduce a new sensor that will provide very accurate real time ship movement forecasting in the case of GPS system blackout.
The market for OPTIPORT could be very large in this growing and increasingly competitive industry Our provisional analysis of the target market size indicates that within Rotterdam port there are potentially 1 000 users for 300 OPTIPORT systems A provisional estimation of demand is 15 000 European systems and 20 000 in North America. At a target selling price of 25 000 this gives a market value of 375m in Europe and 500m in North America. The proposed project will create international export opportunities for those involved in the manufacture of this new ship navigation technology help to protect the sector they serve from globalisation effects and increase their competitiveness through the following OPTIPORT key product features Increased port throughput Improved ship safety during port entry Low cost...
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FP6-2004-SME-COOP
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Denmark
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