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The administration of the Port of Recife received UNICAP students for new updates on the technology project initiative started a few months ago. Now, the complex continues with the new solutions for port operations.
The Port of Recife, located in the state of Pernambuco, is increasingly investing in modernization and new port solutions for its operations. Last Tuesday (20/09), the port administration received students and professors from the Complexity Engineering course at UNICAP (Catholic University of Pernambuco) to present the projects developed in the Technical Cooperation Agreement. The initiative will now continue with the search for new technologies and state-of-the-art solutions for the complex's port operations.
UNICAP students presented the progress of port operations projects to the Port of Recife this week
The need for investments in operational and structural improvements in Brazilian port complexes is an increasingly debated reality in the sector's growth scenario.
In this way, the port authority of the Pernambuco complex developed a partnership with UNICAP students to search for solutions and technologies for the main bottlenecks in port operations.
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In 2021, four students started working in partnership with Porto and interned at the anchorage for a period of three and a half months, seeking solutions to the main problems of the complex.
The bottlenecks found were: the need for recurrent bathymetry, the improvement in the monitoring system of environmental conditions in the port area and a filter to operate within the pier drainage system.
Thus, the students and professors involved in the technology projects met in the Port of Recife to discuss the progress of the Technical Cooperation Agreement.
“What the Complexity Engineering course is doing at the Port of Recife is studying which are the complex points that we do not have an immediate solution on the market and developing this so that we can improve the efficiency of the port operation. In addition, students have a differentiated gain in the scientific experience they develop within the anchorage”, highlighted Tito Moraes, president of the complex.
UNICAP students then developed a sustainable and viable solution to these port operations problems, a boat that runs entirely on a renewable energy source and can be controlled remotely.
Other projects were presented at the meeting and the Technical Cooperation Agreement will now proceed to the next steps.
Port of Recife will receive prototypes of UNICAP projects for gargados solutions in the port operations of the complex
After the presentation of the four initial projects with innovative technologies to solve the problems of the Port of Recife, Unicamp students will move on to the next steps of the agreement.
Thus, the next step to be taken is the development of full-scale models of the four projects presented to the Port and seeking partners to finance the design of these technologies.
This entire initiative will be carried out in partnership with Science and Technology Institutions in the northeastern region, aiming at making better use of the solutions presented in the University's projects.
The finalization of the vessel's initial project is scheduled for the month of October and, subsequently, it will remain for about two months in the test phase at the Port of Recife, for the analysis of its efficiency.
And, in addition to the UNICAP participants, two other exchange students from France are responsible for monitoring the development of these tests and will do an internship at the dock.
Thus, the Pernambuco port complex will be able to develop even more in the national cargo handling scenario and reach a new level in port operations.
