Portchain Connect digitises the berth alignment process between carriers and terminals enabling earlier and more frequent planning decisions for schedule reliability and terminal utilisation
Portchain announced a five-year global partnership with Hapag-Lloyd to deploy Portchain Connect across their global operations.
Hapag-Lloyd said the digital initiative will position the company to accelerate other initiatives that rely on timely and accurate scheduling information to serve their customers better.
Using Portchain Connect, Hapag-Lloyd will shift communication to a digital dashboard aligning berth arrival information with terminals, offering their terminal network direct access to schedule updates and essential vessel call information on the platform.
"We are delighted to be working with Portchain on digitising and streamlining our berth alignment processes and look forward to creating value for our important Terminal partners throughout our network. We believe in the power of leveraging automated data flows to optimise our Port Calls and create transparency and efficiency for our valued Marine and Port Operations teams globally,’’ Hapag-Lloyd director terminal partnering Andrew Allen said.
Hapag-Lloyd said it chose to partner with Portchain because of its experience with solving berth alignment inefficiencies in container shipping, and its position as a neutral software vendor focused on creating value for both carriers and terminals.
Portchain provides a platform combines system and user-generated data to ensure that any container terminal or ocean carrier can join the network - no matter how large, small or digitally mature their operation is.
Portchain Connect facilitates "digital handshakes" and alignment between the terminal, carrier and connected stakeholders. This alignment process enables the opportunity to capture the benefits of Just-In-Time (JIT) arrivals, which the IMO estimate can reduce CO2 emissions and bunker consumption by 5.9% in the 24 hours leading up to arrival.
Portchain Connect has been adopted by 33 terminals in the past 10 months, and the growth of the network is accelerating. Network growth will be further reinforced by 3 ocean carriers trialing the platform in the coming months.
"We are excited to partner with Hapag-Lloyd to digitalise the berth alignment process with terminals across the world. Hapag-Lloyd is an ambitious ocean carrier that is taking big steps to digitalize its operations and enable Just-In-Time Arrivals with its terminal network. We are excited to help them unlock the value of their data, providing terminals with more accurate and timely information to improve terminal efficiency," Portchain CEO and co-founder Niels Kristiansen said.
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