SIMAR

Visit the project description on the 4SH website (French).

SIMAR (Système Informatique Maritime et Aérien de la Réunion) is a software suite developed by 4SH for Infoport. Infoport is specialized in organizing the communication between the various actors of the freight industry in La Réunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean.

SIMAR is deployed on the site of the island's two freight ports: the East Harbour, which receives containers by sea, and the Roland Garros Airport, which receives freight by air. With the island population nearing one million, it is not food self-sufficient and relies on imports from Europe, India and Australia.

Handling freight operations efficiently is critical to the livelihood of the population. However, the harbour is constrained by its comparatively small surface area and its unusual cooperation of three different companies on the facilities (whereas most other harbours in the world are owned by a single company).

SIMAR aggregates data from many domain sources, including company-specific handling tools, and tracks legal authorizations of all goods, reporting discrepancies or unauthorized movements to French customs.

My involvement

I joined the SIMAR project in 2024 as one of the five software engineers on the team.

One of my main tasks was the integration of SIMAR with other systems on the harbour (EAI), in direct communication with the client.

Technical stack

• Kotlin microservices with gRPC
• Java EAI monolith
• TypeScript / Angular frontend
• MongoDB
• Kubernetes
• Kafka
• Gradle