Portchain Quay is a user-friendly berth planning tool developed in collaboration with berth planners. Offering comprehensive planning information, including crane & labor resources, maintenance schedules and proforma planning, it enables terminals to optimize resource allocation and streamline operations.
The most powerful berth planning tool available
Optimize your operations with comprehensive scenario planning, detailed vessel tracking, and precise resource management.
Single source of truth connecting all users with real-time information
Synchronize operations with seamless real-time data sharing, internal collaboration, and automated scheduling updates, ensuring streamlined processes.
Intelligence and decision support to improve robustness and efficiency
Enhance your operations with automated crane and gang allocation, earliest ETA predictions, and trend analysis for continuous improvement.
Benefits for Terminals
Plan faster and more accurately
No more spreadsheets - give berth planners a powerful tool that is built for today´s dynamic environment.
Transparency to drive alignment
Provide real-time access to your berth plan to all your departments, your customers, and your partners with powerful and configurable sharing, driving alignment and efficiency in planning.
Continuous improvement
Berth planning analytics to drive insights and enable continuous improvement and data-driven discussions with your customer.
Quick & easy deployment
Go-live in 4-8 weeks with a cloud-based, easy solution for quick onboarding.
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Portchain Quay enables better and more accurate berth planning to optimize quayside operations.
Features
Scenario Planning
Vessel Tracking & Delay Warnings
TOS integration
Auto-Allocation of Crane & Gangs
Decision Support
Export APIs
Precise Crane & Gang Planning
Real-time Sharing
Proforma Manager
Features
Scenario Planning
Vessel Tracking & Delay Warnings
TOS integration
Auto-Allocation of Crane & Gangs
Decision Support
Export APIs
Precise Crane & Gang Planning
Real-time Sharing
Proforma Manager
How to get started
Contact us to understand how you can go live in 4-6 weeks, investing only a few hours per week to support configuration and change management.
Impact focused
Delivering on the areas that matter the most to you, whether that be cost, customer experience, or saving time and boosting planning efficiency.
Thought partner
Helping you reimagine your ways of working to allow new and more efficient forms of planning and collaboration.
Change management
Leading the change through extensive engagement with all key stakeholders.
24/7 support
Providing responsive and personal support that meets your needs.
Reference case
Geo-strategically located container terminal serving as a bridge between Africa and Europe. Uses improved berth planning with Portchain to optimize resources and improve customer alignment.
“Portchain has made our daily operations much easier. Before we had all these Excel files, but Portchain´s berth planning software (Portchain Quay) has replaced them all and now the first thing everyone does in the morning is to open Portchain Quay. We run multiple scenarios per day to assess impact and increase quay capacity. It has been very important for us to find the best solution to meet our needs and we are very satisfied - Portchain Quay is a modern platform that has accelerated our path to a digital future!”
Carlos Lazo
COO/CCO & Vice President of Management Board
Total capacity
1.5M TEU
per yearTotal quay length
800m
Number of cranes
8 STS
A top-ten US container port, SC Ports owns and operates the Port of Charleston, Port of Geogetown, Inland Port Greer, and Inland Port Dillon. They have deployed Portchain to drive transparency and collaboration, connecting all stakeholders to the berth plan in real time.
“We aim to create transparency and efficiency across the supply chain so that each stakeholder can optimize their own processes.”
Barbara Melvin
CEO of South Carolina Ports
Total capacity
2.8M TEU
per yearTotal quay length
2,347m
Number of cranes
24 STS
The oldest and longest-established port in Malaysia. Drives operational cost savings and a substantial reduction in planning time with Portchain Quay.
“Over the last years, we have significantly improved our performance and efficiency at North Butterworth Container Terminal. With Portchain, we can create the next step in data-driven decision making to further improve operational efficiency. We will also create more transparency and improve operational efficiency. We will also create more transparency and improve collaboration with customers and internal stakeholders by connecting them all to the Portchain platform with real-time information.”
Dato´ Sasedharan Vasudevan
CEO of Penang Port
Total capacity
2.3M TEU
per yearTotal quay length
1,500m
Number of cranes
12 QGC
London Container Terminal provides a unique combination of DeepSea and European Short Sea trades at the same facility. They digitalized and optimized the berth planning process with Portchain Quay to improve customer alignment and operations.
“As we continue our investment in digitization of our busy container terminal we have chosen Portchain Quay to assist our teams in providing reliable real time berth planning and optimization. Portchain Quay will improve the planning process for both the terminal and our customers, providing intelligent real time updates to our planners and more accurate berth predictions for our customers. I think our plan is more reliable, and I think carriers have saved bunke, and we look forward to working with Portchain Quay to develop the solution further.”
Ross McKissock
CEO London Container Terminal
Total capacity
1M TEU
per yearTotal quay length
1,720m
Number of cranes
11 STS
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