EXTENDING TRANSIT WINDOWS AND VESSEL DRAFTS IN PORT BOTANY USING A NEXT GENERATION, PHYSICS-BASED OPERATIONAL SYSTEM

Simon Mortensen ,Phillip M. Holliday

doi:10.9753/icce.v36v.management.4

Abstract

Servicing the largest population centre in Australia, Port Botany is vital to the economic wellbeing of Sydney and New South Wales. The channel entrance is often subject to energetic Pacific Ocean swell, moderate tides and occasionally severe winds. In August 2019, the Port Authority of NSW (PANSW) adopted the NCOS ONLINE system to provide enhanced decision support for under keel clearance management of deep drafted vessels in Port Botany. The technical framework and real-life application of the physics-based operational system NCOS ONLINE is presented in this paper.Recorded Presentation from the vICCE (YouTube Link): https://youtu.be/uPvX_0DNjRo

Highlights

The increasing number of very large container ships servicing major intercontinental shipping routes has resulted in growing pressures on Australian ports to enable safe passage of container vessels beyond 8500 TEU.Servicing the largest population centre in Australia, Port Botany is vital to the economic wellbeing of Sydney and New South Wales
The technical framework and real-life application of the physics-based operational system NCOS ONLINE is presented in this paper
Since NCOS ONLINE has defeered extensive tranit delays during storm events and has overall increased safe transit windows by more than 130% over the last 12 months

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Introduction

Servicing the largest population centre in Australia, Port Botany is vital to the economic wellbeing of Sydney and New South Wales. In August 2019, the Port Authority of NSW (PANSW) adopted the NCOS ONLINE system to provide enhanced decision support for under keel clearance management of deep drafted vessels in Port Botany. The technical framework and real-life application of the physics-based operational system NCOS ONLINE is presented in this paper.

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