Project Cargo

Project cargo and heavy lift shipping are different from traditional dry bulkers because most of the trading is tailor-made with special (multi-purpose) vessels and skilled manning. Vessel compartments are configurable to adjust to the specific cargo, which is not always known upfront.

Alongside Quintiq's generic planning capabilities of Designing Optimal Fleet Network, Capacity Optimization and Voyage Scheduling & Revision Management, it is crucial for project cargo and heavy lift shippers to take into account vessel cargo configurations with near future open positions and spot-market opportunities.

Potential Quintiq capabilities:

• Allocate the right cargo to the right vessels, respecting cargo specifications, service levels, costs, utilization levels, trade lanes, etc.
• Assist planners to allocate cargo manually on a vessel group or individual vessel when fixing the plan
• Ask the system to (partially) optimize the vessel schedule on individual unique vessels
• What-if scenarios to define most profitable fleet allocation as well as capacity plans or assess impact of port rotation changes or vessel swap on overall profit