Maritime Planning Solutions

Port Terminal Planning & Optimization

Quintiq is able to plan dock workers, cranes & prime movers in parallel. It takes into account each employee’s expertise and certification for equipment, such as cranes, contractual obligations and union regulations, and it enables maximal accommodation of employee preferences within economic constraints. The result: actual vessels bookings and forecasts are converted into dynamic and efficient rosters.

With logistics processes the main challenge is to match import and export bookings of full and empty containers with all available resources and assets, such as berths, vessels and barges, cranes and movers, trucks, trailers and wagons. This creates a highly complex planning puzzle.

Quintiq helps to increase yard utilization by optimizing the usage of capital-intensive handling equipment, minimizing unproductive moves and waiting time. All this, while respecting all constraints, priorities, service levels, last-minute changes and unique business rules.

Quintiq provides planners with an integrated insight into the entire terminal logistics process, including local transportation. The planner is notified immediately of all consequences of a delay anywhere in the supply chain, and the system presents the best alternative based upon real-time key performance indicators (KPIs).