Multi-Purpose and RoRo Terminals

Multi-purpose terminals specialize in the handling of break-bulk, ro-ro ships of all types, as well as barges and container ships. These terminals mostly also provide storage and logistic services. A terminal often has a large number of specialized handling equipment for ro-ro stevedoring, including reach stackers, forklifts, tug masters, etc.

Ro-ro terminals mainly serve liners with published time schedules. This implies that most of the cargo for departing vessels arrives in the last hour before departure, which increases the yard and berth planning complexity. Because of the dynamic process, an intelligent decision support system can support planners in making the most profitable allocation decisions every time.

For incoming vessels, the yard allocation process is crucial in optimizing yard capacity and vessel turnaround times and thus costs.

Potential benefits of Quintiq:

• Yard allocation
• Less driving kilometers per vessel through ‘dynamic’ yard allocation
• Decreased turnaround time
• Decreased number of tugs needed
• Fewer stevedores needed
• Re-allocate resources to other businesses or activities
• Workforce
• Visualize gang demand terminal-wide to forecast gang demand more accurately
• Centralize gang demand assignation
• More effective workforce assignation
• Less subcontracting
• Transparency of surplus capacity
• Shunt moves
• Shunting moves consist of pre-move, post-move
• Housekeeping could directly improve resource utilization
• Labor surplus could be used for ‘smart’ housekeeping
• Housekeeping will avoid bottlenecks for (un)loading vessels
• Decreased vessel turnaround time
• Fewer tugs needed
• 'Surplus’ resources used at no additional cost