Navis, a provider of operational technologies and services, announced that it provided 31 automated rail-mounted gantry cranes to Five Continents International Container Terminal (FICT), all of them already operating on its N4 terminal operating system. The retrofitting of the 31 automated RMGs was completed in a record time, with the intelligent equipment going live on April 30, 2019.
Mainly, the facility is located in Tianjin, China, and belongs to the tenth busiest port globally.
Due to the rise of ship size and higher volume cargo, FICT decided to increase the facility’s capacity for improved levels of efficiency.
With the help of leading software and equipment providers, we completed the automation process in record time and expect to see significant gains in efficiency, which in turn will open up our capacity and allow us to serve more customers.
… Song Tianwei, General Manager at FICT, commented.
He continued that as the facility is amongst the busiest ports, the modernization of the area was of a big importance, in order to be able to handle increasing cargo volumes. Therefore, the modernization of the facility would result to attracting more customers, processing their containers in the most timely and efficient manner possible.
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From the day of their operation, Navis’ N4 software assisted FICT direct crane operations and optimize the sequence of work orders, In addition, the software played an important role in managing yard and vessel planning, as well as ARMG scheduling.
According to Navis
Following the upgrade to the equipment and software, the cranes at FICT now deliver a consistent performance of 30 moves per hour, increasing the terminal’s overall capacity by more than 10%.
Mark Welles, Vice President and General Manager Asia Pacific at Navis, added that terminals today should operate at their best, providing productivity and efficiency at peak on a daily basis.
