The Mediterranean Shipping Association is going to launch an automated SMS warning system that will alert the captains of various ships on the sea around Majorca regarding any dangerous incidents round the corner.
This move is expected to make the sea a safer place. ADN plans to establish this service across Spain by next month.
This project is developed by Marattxi, Mallorca Company. ADN said that the captains are already being informed about storms and other dangers through mobile phones, but now, this system is going to be made automated. ADN wants to create an emergency procedure where the captains of the vessels can be informed using simultaneous text messages instead of emergency radio messaging.
For this warning system, a two way network between a central hub and the members of ADN will be set up. The network will automatically select the appropriate warning message to be sent to all the members, currently listing around 250 of them. When this project starts functioning, the warnings received from all the emergency departments and Meteorological centres in the Balearics would be sent instantly.
Yesterday ADN said that sending warnings through radios is not very efficient because whether the captains get the alerts or not depends on many factors. They need to be onboard at that time to receive the warnings, but SMS messaging doesn’t have such limitations.
ADN has members at almost all ports on the islands and they believe that this new system will prove to be very helpful and can avert many dangerous accidents.
The ADN congress today will be a high profile meeting with the head of the Mallorca Martime department, Bartolome Calafell, top director of General Emergencies directorate, Pedro Orfila and the senior official at the Meteorological Office, Agustin Jansa being present. They will make an assessment of introduction of the new technique.
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