￡1.5m upgrade for Harwich VTS

摘要

The ￡1.5m upgrade was officially opened by Bernard Jenkin, MP for Harwich, on the same day the second of the Authority's new pilot launches, the St Christopher, was named by Baroness Jenkin. The VTS upgrade involved a complete redesign of the control room as well as installing revised systems hardware and software. It was mainly undertaken by Signalis, a recently created German and French consortium. The upgrade has delivered the latest traffic monitoring and management technology, improving the Harwich VTS system's ability to manage some 15,000 annual vessel movements to/from the Haven ports of Felixstowe, Harwich International.