Today’s ocean supply chain lacks the connected intelligence and transparency to drive breakthroughs in efficiency, productivity and profitability. Digitization of the industry calls for greater levels of connectivity, simplicity and standardization across the container flow. Expanding beyond the terminal, Navis formed XVELA to build a Maritime Business Network enabling collaboration and optimizing performance along the entire supply chain.
The Navis N4 operating system and related applications and services dramatically improve productivity by coordinating, optimizing and automating planning and management of complex terminal operations around the world.
Navis announced that Terminales Portuarios Euroandinos (TPE Paita) has gone live on N4 following its latest upgrade of the software, part of its larger strategic plan for process automation at Paita Port.
Octopi, part of Navis, and Cargotec Corporation, is announcing that Worldwide Terminals Fernandina, which operates the Port of Fernandina in Northeastern Florida, has agreed to implement Octopi’s software-as-a-service TOS.
Qingdao New Qianwan Terminal (QQCTN) is the first automated container terminal in Asia and one of the most advanced automated container terminals worldwide. Learn More >
Learn some of the unique elements of general cargo operations and the challenges they present.
It is well-known that automation offers multiple benefits to container terminals. In recent years, there has been a gradual shift, with terminals around the world choosing to explore some level of automation in order to reduce labor cost, achieve a more consistent and reliable performance or increase safety – or a combination thereof. However, despite ports being an ideal place to automate, the reality is that automation adoption is moving slower than expected and the ROI is not yet living up to expectations. Learn more.
