Automated planning of quay crane's work in vessels' bays, optimize and balance the crane utilization, and progress the departure time.

Plan for quay cranes to be located in the relevant bays for upcoming vessel calls automatically; do manual quay crane bay plan adjustments and your plan is ready to be executed by the stevedores.

Align the quay crane work between available quay cranes, so quay cranes are utilized in a balanced manner securing highest possible productivity and earliest available ETD. Respect the stevedore shift timings and plan for quay crane work in a cost effective manner. Avoid waiting time doing cascade quay crane relocations by establishing full quay crane location pattern in advance. Run what-if scenarios, assuming one more quay crane is added (or subtracted) during whole port stay, during shift or in specified timeslot from either vessel fore or aft, do automatic re-planning and see consequence of changed overall vessel ETD.

ARL Sea Side Crane Bay Planner:

• Obtain ETA/ETDs and quay cranes assignment timeslots
• Import onboard containers by EDI (BAPLIE) and stowage instructions (MOVINS) by EDI
• Automatically distribute quay cranes amongst bays respecting the quay crane availability timeslots
• Manual planning override
• Graphical and report (PDF, XML) quay crane & crane operators/ stevedores bay-level working plan
• Plan for late arriving containers
• Capture execution status for dynamic plan rework
• Identify early-ETD opportunities by changed quay crane availability
• EDI mapping tool for import of multiple EDI message variants

See how the ARL Sea Side Crane Bay Planner supports your stevedoring operation in the Sea Side Crane Bay Planner process description. Sign-up for a free online demo - duration is approximately one hour. Download a Sea Side Crane Bay Planner flier. 

Hot FAQ

Can discharge and load planning be fully automated?

All quay crane activities are planned automatically, however, the operator may choose to override the automatically generated plan taking some circumstances the Sea Side Crane Bay Planner does not know about into account.

Is the container yard locations taken into account when planning for quay crane operation?

The quay crane planning is done on container category level in accordance with the stowage instructions, i.e. individual container numbers are not planned, and any container matching the category can be loaded (f.ex. any match size/type, discharge, weight class).

What if a vessel's ETD can be progressed by allocating more terminal resources than required to meet the contractual commitments?

This will be listed as an opportunity, which must be handled manually, so the terminal can pursue, that the shipping line share the benefit of early departure (lower bunkers cost due to slower steaming to next port) justifying the additional stevedoring costs.

Is the Sea Side Crane Bay Planner taking vessel stability, strength and cargo handling aspects into account?

The Sea Side Crane Bay Planner is optimising loading and discharging taking the arrival bayplan (BAPLIE) and the loading instructions (target bayplan MOVINS) into account, organising and planning the quay cranes work most effiecently. The Quay Crane Bay Planner is assuming that vessel stability, vessel strength considerations as well as hazardous cargo segregation, special treatment cargo conditions has already been taken into account by ship's planners in the loading instruction.

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