Santos Brasil launches application for reading container seals

Santos Brasil is implementing a new technology in its container export operations: OCR reading (optical character recognition). The system replaces manual typing of container data, increasing safety and productivity, reducing errors, and speeding up the process of dispatching cargo.

The idea for the application came when the Port of Santos Customs issued Ordinance 134 of March 2018, stating, among other things, that containers with export cargo should be photographed before being opened. From then on Santos Brasil developed the new system, which allows its employees to use an application installed on a tablet to read the seals before the containers are opened by the IRS.

According to Ricardo Abbruzzini, Director of Technology and Innovation of the Company, in addition to meeting the Revenue rules, the new app gives more security and speed to customs processes in the company. “Reading OCR seals on tablets decreases the incidence of typos, as before, when the data was filled by the surveyor manually,” he explains.

The app is already in use in Santos Brasil’s logistics area, where the results were very positive: the reading of the seals, which took an average of 7 seconds before the use of the system, was now done in 1.43 seconds, with 83% accuracy. The next step will be to implement the application in Tecon Santos and, later, to expand its use for reading the unloading seals (importation).

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