Busan Port Authority and Busan Regional Meteorological Administration Sign Agreement for Development of Weather Convergence Services

Promoting the Integration of Hazardous Weather Data
to Enhance the Safety of Busan Port Operations

Busan Port Authority (BPA, President Song Sang-geun) signed a memorandum of understanding on the 5th to cooperate in the development of port safety weather convergence services with the Busan Regional Meteorological Administration (Director Lee Eun-jung).

Busan Port Authority-Busan Regional Meteorological Administration Business Agreement (from left, Song Sang-geun, President of Busan Port Authority, Lee Eun-jung, Director of Busan Regional Meteorological Administration) Photo by Busan Port Authority

This agreement was made with the purpose of safe port operation and rapid disaster response by integrating real-time hazardous weather information into the port safety technology developed by BPA, the ‘Container Alignment Monitoring System.’

To this end, BPA will provide basic data related to port operation and safety, and the Meteorological Administration plans to develop a customized weather convergence service for Busan Port based on this data to support the advancement of safety technology.

In particular, BPA, with support from the Ministry of Science and ICT, developed the ‘Container Alignment Monitoring System’ that analyzes the container stacking status in real time. By linking real-time weather information, an algorithm will be developed to prevent container overturn accidents based on predictive information of hazardous situations such as strong winds.

Lee Eun-jung, Director of the Busan Regional Meteorological Administration, said, “Through future cooperation with BPA, we will develop various weather information convergence services to enhance the productivity and punctuality of Busan Port and strive to improve the reliability of the port.”

Song Sang-geun, President of BPA, said, “Through collaboration with the Busan Regional Meteorological Administration, we will actively support the leap to a global smart safety port by converging weather information, which greatly affects port operation and safety, with new port-related technologies.”