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Terminals & ports
Ever wondered what drives a container terminal to expediete shipping line vessels terminal operations? Well, first of all the terminal need to meet the contractual commitments from their shipping line customers. Secondarily, the terminal need to maintain a cost efficient operation, which is also in the long term benefit of the customer. Sounds right?
But what if all export containers are already at the terminal ready for loading? And the terminal is as such equipped to expediete the vessel faster, but against extra costs. Is the shipping line willing to cover those extra costs? Probably not. Who benefits from the accellerated ETD? The terminal doesn't; on the contrary they will have additional costs. The benefit is harvested by the shipping line, which can steam slower to the next port and save on bunkers.
Check out the Ship Side Crane Bay Planner for shipping lines or for terminals , which allow for what-if scenarios to identify opportunities to accellerate ETD beyond the contractual commitments by adding more terminal resources, and thereby facilitating the terminal and the shipping line to share the pain and the gain!
Ever visited a container terminal and watched the lashing teams having hour-long breaks waiting for next bay to be ready for them to do their job? The real reason might be that lashing teams are assigned in a hierachical manner, limiting their lashing assignments to neighbouring bays in accordance with a specific quay crane's work during a port stay.
Now the solution to break this dependancy is here: The ARL Lashing Planner, planning for high utilisation of lashing teams across not only all bays on a vessel, but all vessels alongside at berth. Read more here.
In later shipZine editions, learn about the safety aspect of lashing planning: Plan to avoid work in unsafe zone & times onboard the vessel.
During Solutions World 2010, hosted by Zebra Enterprise Solutions in San Francisco, California, USA in September 2010, arl-shipping.com participated exhibiting and demo'ing the Navis RTG Commander, which is build by ARL.
ARL's Rene Bendt together with ZES/Navis's Robert Inchausti gave one of the most well visited presentations with almost 100 people attending, presenting the options and features that take the very expensive guess work out of how many RTGs you really need to run your operation, and in which yard blocks to deploy them.
Still using a whiteboard or an excel sheet to keep track of next week's incoming vessels and their assigned berthing location? Why not try out arl-shipping.com's Berthing Planner Light for free: Sign-up here and get a link for download in return.
Navis, the leading terminal industry's leading provider of terminal operating systems, TOS, has inked a reseller agreement with arl-shipping.com, complementing ARL's leading RTG planning and execution tools, RTG Deployer and RTG Dispatcher, into Navis's portfolio.
See the full press release here.
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