How Experience and Simulation Techniques Improve Tug Effectiveness and Safety at Hadera Open-Sea Terminal

摘要

Port of Hadera, an open-sea port, planned to accommodate fully-loaded, cape-size bulk carriers, with a design based purely on theoretical criteria, has considerably improved in efficiency due to the assimilation of extensive experience accumulated over the past 30 years. Simulator training of the port pilots and tug captains brought additional improvement in ship and tug handling, thus contributing to port efficiency, primarily in economical, professional and safety aspects, and therefore protecting property and life. Driven, amongst other things, by changes in market/client's requirements, original design parameters were reviewed, and operating concepts, supported by modern equipment, were evolved and tested; this resulted in safely increased output. This paper will review Hadera's development and achievements, and will show that the port operates at markedly improved efficiencies and output.