Technological model for application of mobile technology in the process of highway transportation of imported sulfur Caio Fernando Fontana, Cleiton Capellossi, Marcelo Vieira, Vidal Augusto Zapparoli Castro Melo, Eduardo Mario Dias, Fabio Hideo Mori Power and Electric Automation Engineering Department Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo Av. Professor Luciano Gualberto, Trav. 3, 158, Room A2-06 BRAZIL {marcelo.vieira, caio.fontana, cleiton.capellossi, vidal.augusto} @ poli.usp.br}, emdias@pea.usp.br , fmori@sti.com.br Abstract: - This article presents the definition of a model for application of mobile technology in Ports. The work has been developed in the context of the use of mobile devices for automation of the processes of loading and logistics of highway transportation from the port to the importer. The term mobile technology is employed to define equipment, communication means and software engineering that permit to extend the computing support beyond the existing infra-structure limits. Keywords: - Mobility, Logistics, Transportation, Automation, Terminal 1 Introduction The official landmark of the launching of Porto de Santos is February 2 nd , 1892, when the then Companhia Docas de Santos – CDS, delivered to the world navigation the first 260 m of docks, in the area, still currently called Valongo. Since then, the port has not stopped expanding, crossing all cycles of economic growth of the country, appearance and disappearance of types of cargo, until it reached the current period of wide use of containers. In 1980, with the end of the legal period of concession of exploitation of the port by Companhia Docas de Santos, the Federal Government created Companhia Docas do Estado de São Paulo – CODESP, a mixed economy company, whose major capital belongs to the Union. Currently, Porto de Santos, moves, per year, over 60 million tons of miscellaneous cargos. With 12 km of docks, between the two margins of the estuary of Santos, the port entered a new phase of exploitation, as a consequence of Law No. 8.630/93, with the leasing of areas and facilities to the private initiatives, upon public bidding procedures. The Porto de Santos, located in the municipality of Santos, in the State of São Paulo, is the main Brazilian port, leader in the movement of containers. The system of terrestrial accesses to the port is formed by Anchieta and Imigrantes highways and by Ferroban and MRS railways. Today, it is Latin America’s largest Port, occupying the 39 th world ranking of movement of container cargos. The Port of Santos has two divisions according to specific laws, the first one called Organized Port and the second one called Terminals Without Commercial Exploitation. According to MT Ordinance No. 94, of 2/15/95 (Official Gazette of the Union of 2/17/95), the area of the Organized port of Santos, in the State of São Paulo is constituted by: a) terrestrial port facilities existing on the right margin of the estuary formed by the isles of São Vicente and Santo Amaro, from Ponta da Praia to Alamoa and, on the left margin, from the Isle of Barnabé to the opening of Santo Amaro, covering all docks, quays, bridges, piers for anchorage and mooring, warehouses, yards, buildings in general, internal highway and railway circulation and, further, the land along these marginal strips and in their surroundings, belonging to the Union, whether incorporated or not to the assets of the Porto de Santos, or under its cost and responsibility, also including the Hydroelectric Power Plant of Itatinga and the strip of domain of its transmission lines; b) protection infra-structure and waterway access, such as anchorage areas, maneuvering basin, access channel up to parallel 23º24'48''S and areas adjacent to it up to the margins to the terrestrial facilities of the organized port, as defined in item “a” above, existing or that may Proceedings of the 13th WSEAS International Conference on SYSTEMS ISSN: 1790-2769 441 ISBN: 978-960-474-097-0