Swedish Port of Gothenburg announced the launch of the Berth Planner, a new digital tool aiming to make port calls more time-efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally smart.
The tool, developed by the Gothenburg Port Authority in partnership with the Finnish company Awake.AI, is due to be launched after the summer, aiming to facilitate work of shipbrokers, pilots, and mooring personnel.
We’re working on several fronts to digitalise the port, not only to make calls more efficient but also to visualise freight flows. Berth Planner is just one of a series of investments that we are making to propel the Port of Gothenburg into the future,
…said Martin Johannesson, IT Manager at the Gothenburg Port Authority.
As explained, Berth Planner offers two-way integration – for in-house use by berth planning personnel at the Port of Gothenburg, and for external use by the various parties involved in port calls.
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According to Fredrik Rauer, traffic coordinator at the Gothenburg Port Authority, traffic coordinators at Port Control, safety and security coordinators at the Energy Terminal, and the port’s production planners will now have a schematic overview at their disposal, similar in many ways to a traditional school timetable, where we can see which ships are moored at the different berths.
Using the map service, we can choose from a list of time slots for each berth. This allows us to see which vessel is due to moor at a particular berth at a particular time. The positioned vessels at berths that have GPS bollards can be seen on the map,
…he said.
In addition, the second part of Berth Planner is satisfying the need for a status overview in the planning system by providing access to rapid, relevant status information for external parties, including the pilots, personnel at the Klippan mooring company, and ship’s agents, all of whom have a key role to play in the process.
With Berth Planner we can allocate a status that has already been coordinated with the terminal and by doing so we can see those vessels that have been confirmed and those that are pending…With more advanced call scheduling, we anticipate time savings and improved efficiency, not only for our operating personnel but also for the shipping companies,
…concluded Fredrik Rauer, adding that the solution will take to Port a step further towards achieving its environmental goal of a 70% reduction in carbon emissions.
