2005 Press Release
Solution for anti-terrorist security to be implemented at the new Suvarnabhumi International Airport (SBIA) in Bangkok
Singapore, 26 April 2005 - Leading IT services provider CrimsonLogic today announced a major business win in partnership with CDG Systems, who bid for the tender. CrimsonLogic and CDG Systems will collaborate to implement the Advanced Passenger Information System (APIS) for Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, a high-security project worth more than TB80 million from the New Bangkok International Airport Company Ltd, a company formed under Thailand's Ministry of Transport and Communications.
CrimsonLogic's track record in implementing post-911 security systems such as Panama's Automated Data Collection System (ADCS) and cross border services for submission of Advance Manifest to the United States of America and Canada, plus a strong background in implementing nationwide multi-networked systems made it the obvious choice for the role of solutions provider. The project will be fronted by CDG Systems Limited, Thailand's leading IT Professional Services Company for more than 36 years.
“With the increasing need for security-related solutions around the world, we have established the vision to focus on providing true shipper as well as special featured Security business solutions since 2003, and we will certainly be more than willing to share our expertise with our partners. Thailand will be the second country in Asia after Korea to have this system once APIS is implemented at the new International airport,” said Mr. V. Mathivanan, CEO of CrimsonLogic.
Since the terrorist attacks in September 2001, a United States legislation was passed for all commercial airlines on international flights to send their passenger and crew manifest data to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) APIS for advance processing before arrival in the United States. Several countries like Australia, Canada, Korea, and New Zealand, have since followed suit. With the APIS system, Suvarnabhumi International Airport will be able to receive passenger information prior to the touchdown of an aircraft from the computerized systems of the airline companies. The information will subsequently be processed for profiles of passengers with high-risk potential (such as terrorism, narcotic, health, diseases outbreak, human smuggling), and passengers black-listed or put on watch by Thailand government agencies such as the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) and the Royal Thai Customs. The information of suspected passengers will be sent to the APIS monitor in the APIS control centre, and to the Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) of rovers on patrol via wireless networks. The implementation of APIS is set to track some 120 million passengers per annum at capacity.
The APIS system will be based on CrimsonLogic's J2EE Risk Management System. CDG Systems will integrate this solution seamlessly with the existing systems of the Thailand Immigrations, Royal Thai Customs and other government agencies. Having a ready-built scalable solution and with the ability to integrate into other solutions seamlessly, CrimsonLogic and CDG are able to deliver an APIS system in a quicker timeframe as compared to other vendors who need to build such systems from scratch.
The APIS system is expected to be commissioned in August this year.