Today's terminals are constantly struggling to manage growth under tight land constraints. Navis™ SPARCS Expert Decking helps space-constrained terminals increase utilization of yard space in order to handle growth without adding new land. The Navis SPARCS Expert Decking solution allows terminals to fully automate yard positioning, automatically distributing containers throughout the yard based on user-defined constraints, preventing congestion and promoting throughput. Move decisions are made logically; SPARCS Expert Decking optimization application finds the best position without mixing stacks and reduces re-handles and yard shifts. With Expert Decking you define the yard strategy and stacking composition one time. Then, Navis™ SPARCS and Navis™ SPARCS N4 TOS automatically assigns containers to optimal positions across the yard, maintaining compliance with hazardous container segregation rules, ensuring proximity to the scheduled loading berth or rail track, and distributing for efficient multi-crane vessel operations.

Without SPARCS Expert Decking, yard assignments are made manually and are subject to the limits of ad-hoc human judgment, leading to underutilized yard space, inefficient decking and higher operating costs. With SPARCS Expert Decking, each container is assigned to its optimal position based on the business rules and constraints of the terminal, providing an increased utilization of yard space, up to 90% reduction in re-handles, and enhanced equipment utilization. .