AI BASED SECURED PAPERLESS CONTAINER DELEVERY SYSTEM;

A MODEL FOR SMART CHITTAGONG PORT

Lt Col Mostafa Arif-ur Rahman, Major Md Wahidul Haque

Abstract

Information Technology (IT) is transforming rapidly and solely igniting 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) and providing lot of conveniences to increase productivity and efficiency. Similarly, sea ports, being the major player of supply chain have underground many rapid developments with the introduction of containerization. Chittagong port continues to cope with the changing pattern of the trade and aspires to be a smart port in line with Smart Bangladesh, vision 2041. This research aims to evaluate the delay and security concern of paper based container delivery process from the yard and suggest an AI based paperless delivery system. Combination of both quantitative and qualitative methodology is used in this research. It is found that in a year, amongst 0.3 million container trailers, 36605 (approximately 10.2%) trailers were cleared in less than one hour and 62466 trailers (approximately 20.1%) took more than 12 hours. Basing on this result, in-depth interview of 19 people from five stakeholders were collected and thematic analysis with Atlas Ti was conducted. Result of the study shows that a RFID based rewritable Smart Device System with specific data base connectivity with three servers of two ministries can reduce the average time of delivery to less than one hour. It also shows that AI based face recognition application at the gate entry, exit and delivery point can reduce forgery to zero level, meaning it can make 100% safe delivery. Outcome of this research is expected to make Chittagong port’s container delivery system approximately ten times more efficient and 100% secured. This will in turn reduce approximately 90% container trailer related traffic movement and jam inside and outside the port area and make the port safer and more secured.