New equipment in the ports of Northern Sardinia to adapt the ports to the most advanced standards in the field of port security.
From this week the new systems positioned under the mobile marquees recently installed in the ports of Olbia, Golfo Aranci and Porto Torres will gradually come into operation. Instrumentation and workstations for around 2,850,000 euros, which will replace and integrate the control systems already operational at the airports, allowing faster and more effective control management, especially the more detailed ones for passengers with cars and above all, the possibility of remodulating the access gates, with the separation of the procedures for boarding ferries from those on cruise ships.
In Porto Torres, with an investment of approximately 1,800,000 euros, 13 tensile structures are planned, equipped with 11 x-ray equipment for baggage checks, one of which is mobile mounted on a van; 19 metal detectors (of which 7 portal and 12 manual) for checks on passengers; 6 explosives detectors; 4 devices with integrated camera for the automatic control from a video station of the underbody of the embarking vehicles; 6 portable probe cameras and a transceiver system that will manage 28 radio sets.
In the port of the White Island of Olbia, 740,000 euros were spent to install new equipped marquees , for a total of 4 x-ray scanners and one mobile on a van; there will be 11 metal detectors; two explosives detectors, a portable probe camera, a transceiver system for the management of 25 radio sets.
Finally, in Golfo Aranci, for a cost of 285 thousand euros, there are 2 marquees equipped with the same number of X-ray equipment for baggage checks; 7 metal detectors; an explosives detector, a portable probe camera for inspections of the underbody of vehicles and a transceiver system equipped with 10 radio sets. In the Santa Teresa airport, with a loan of around 500 thousand euros, a prefabricated building will be positioned to be used as a control room, a baggage inspection area equipped with x-ray systems, metal detectors, and a new video surveillance system supported by four new LED light towers.
«The new system will allow us to manage checks on vehicles and passengers even more quickly and effectively, - said Massimo Deiana, president of the Port Authority - in anticipation of a definitive realignment of commercial and cruise traffic to pre-pandemic levels. process, the one that concerns the north of the island, which represents the spearhead of the Sardinian port system and which, shortly, will also affect the ports of the South ».