Major leading countries and players worldwide - Maritime
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Major leading countries and players worldwide - Maritime
Handling of containers is crucial for efficient
commercial harbour operations.Traffic of
goods in and out of European ports reaches
40 million containers a year.
Sciro in Italy is involved in developing a system
using GNSS that automatically tracks
containers inside a terminal.This will reduce
container handling time and costs, and
increase service levels and terminal
productivity.
The Galileo system also contributes to the international search and rescue service, enhancing the worldwide performance of the current COSPAS-SARSAT system.The current positioning accuracy is rather poor (typically a few kilometres) and alerts are not always issued in real-time.The Galileo search and rescue service will drastically reduce the Time To Alert (from hours to minutes), and the position of the distress beacon will be determined to within a few metres. So far restricted to a professional-type user community, there are some 200,000 Cospas-Sarsat beacons in existence today. It has been shown that the market will rapidly grow to a few million beacons after the advent of Galileo. As of December 2002 the Cospas-Sarsat System had provided assistance in rescuing more than 15,700 persons in almost 4,500 incidents. [1]
References
[1] Galileo Joint Undertaking
"Business in satellite navigation - An overview of market developments and emerging applications".
