LondonGateway – the UK’s first major deep-sea container port and Europe’s largest logistics park – will use a private cloud to support IT infrastructure for its new terminal.
However, the port has confirmed that Navis SPARCS N4 or other mission critical systems will not be hosted in the cloud in the near future.
In a statement, London Gateway said it would consider a range of cloud options over time but at the moment, the best fit for the project is a private cloud.
“We want to take advantage of all the benefits of high levels of asset utilisation, automation and agility that a private cloud offers but for now to still be ‘masters of our destiny’
“The solution we have chosen in conjunction with our Infrastructure partner Dimension Data represents the optimum compromise when all issues are considered in our view.”
The infrastructure will be replicated on-site so that the systems can continue to monitor vehicle movements, X-ray containers and manage container ship slots when the infrastructure is being updated or undergoing maintenance work.
Dimension Data, the port’s infrastructure partner, will also support London Gateway's asset management, commercial, labour management, finance, executive information and classic Microsoft office systems.
“The London Gateway project requires an extensive process of analysis and system integration design to develop the technical solution,” said Calvin Goom, Dimension Data UK MD.
When work has been completed on the systems there will be a period of testing before the port formally opens in the fourth quarter of this year.
The port aims to transform London once again into a European and global logistics hub.
Port unions resolve to organise campaign against DPW
11 July 2013
ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) dockers’ union representatives meeting in Chicago, USA, resolved this week to organise a global campaign highlighting the need for global network terminal operator (GNT) DP World to engage with unions over trade union rights/representation in a number of countries.
The representatives agreed that action is required, particularly with regards the situation at London Gateway terminal, UK, where Unite the Union’s offer of cooperative working is being snubbed. Speaking from the Chicago meeting Steve Biggs from Unite said: “What we’re seeing at London Gateway is a rejection of the workers’ choice. This is not the way we expect, or can allow, an employer to behave in the 21st century.”
The ITF Dockers’ Section Conference held in Chicago on 8-9 July 2013;
BELIEVES that Dubai Ports World is systematically attempting to undermine the wages and workingconditions of workers all over the world by engaging in anti-union behaviour, including:
· Refusing to enter into meaningful negotiations with UNITE and refusing to sign a collective agreement to cover workers presently being hired at its new London Gateway Terminal;
· Refusing to recognise Madras Port Trust Employees’ Union, the legitimate union representing workers in Chennai, India, and promoting a yellow union entirely controlled by the management of Chennai Container Terminal Ltd, which owned by Dubai Ports World;
· Hiring port workers out of the official port workers’ register, with the objective of not negotiating a CBA with the union SUTRAMPORPC, even when the Peruvian Ministry has recognised the Union does have a branch collective agreement in Callao, that should be respected;
· Denying the right of freedom of association to workers at International Container Transhipment Terminal, a Dubai Ports World hub terminal in Cochin, India;
· Not renewing the collective agreement at Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal (NSICT-DPW), which expired in August2012;
· Using the introduction of automated machinery at its Brisbane, Australia terminal as a cover for undermining union organisation, insisting on massive job cuts and the transfer of some union jobs to management.
DECLARES Dubai Ports World London Gateway to be a Port of Convenience, and to be a priority target for the ITF’s Port of Convenience campaign.
The representatives agreed that action is required, particularly with regards the situation at London Gateway terminal, UK, where Unite the Union’s offer of cooperative working is being snubbed. Speaking from the Chicago meeting Steve Biggs from Unite said: “What we’re seeing at London Gateway is a rejection of the workers’ choice. This is not the way we expect, or can allow, an employer to behave in the 21st century.”
The ITF Dockers’ Section Conference held in Chicago on 8-9 July 2013;
BELIEVES that Dubai Ports World is systematically attempting to undermine the wages and workingconditions of workers all over the world by engaging in anti-union behaviour, including:
· Refusing to enter into meaningful negotiations with UNITE and refusing to sign a collective agreement to cover workers presently being hired at its new London Gateway Terminal;
· Refusing to recognise Madras Port Trust Employees’ Union, the legitimate union representing workers in Chennai, India, and promoting a yellow union entirely controlled by the management of Chennai Container Terminal Ltd, which owned by Dubai Ports World;
· Hiring port workers out of the official port workers’ register, with the objective of not negotiating a CBA with the union SUTRAMPORPC, even when the Peruvian Ministry has recognised the Union does have a branch collective agreement in Callao, that should be respected;
· Denying the right of freedom of association to workers at International Container Transhipment Terminal, a Dubai Ports World hub terminal in Cochin, India;
· Not renewing the collective agreement at Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal (NSICT-DPW), which expired in August2012;
· Using the introduction of automated machinery at its Brisbane, Australia terminal as a cover for undermining union organisation, insisting on massive job cuts and the transfer of some union jobs to management.
DECLARES Dubai Ports World London Gateway to be a Port of Convenience, and to be a priority target for the ITF’s Port of Convenience campaign.
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