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Spinnaker sails solo
enhance communication with ter-
minal customers, improve cus-
tomer service,and further increase
operational efficiencies,” said
Schwank.
Seattle-based Tideworks Tech- sel load plan. There are terminal sub-module for gate activity, ena- Tideworks believes that taking
nology has successfully imple- management systems that include bling BICT to leverage the same this incremental approach is the
mented its Spinnaker Plan- planning and TOS functionality system for gate, yard and vessel best way to balance the custom-
ning Management System at on the one platform, but the more operations. er’s operational and financial ob-
Batumi International Con- common approach is to integrate The standalone approach jectives, while delivering the low-
tainer Terminal (BICT) in a planning application such as made sense for BICT because its est total cost of ownership. “We
Adjara, Georgia. BICT is op- Spinnaker with a TOS application transactional volumes are not large do not try to ‘oversell’ the cus-
erated by ICTSI and is the like Tidework’s Mainsail or a enough for a full-scale TOS, but tomer on technology; Tideworks
second ICTSI terminal to im- legacy in-house application. it needed to improve certain as- makes technology recommenda-
plement Tideworks software, This reflects the way port en- pects of the operation, including tions that provide both an increase
following the Baltic Container terprise software evolved - termi- visibility, inventory control, vessel in operational efficiency and an
Terminal in Gdynia. nals developed in-house TOS sys- and yard planning. attractive ROI that is aligned with
BICT has implemented Spin- tems before off-the-shelf graphi- There are, however, some limi- the customer’s expectations,”
Batumi International Container Terminal (BICT) in Adjara, Georgia, will
naker on a standalone basis, that is cal planning applications came on tations to this approach. Tideworks Schwank added.
implement Tideworks Spinnaker on a standalone basis
without integrating it with a Ter- the market. does not recommend it for a “high Pinpointing when a TOS is
minal Operating Systems (TOS). It is possible for smaller termi- volume facility handling lots of required requires the volume and a terminal needs or wants to fully earlier, but could also include an-
What is commonly referred to as nals to meet their IT needs run- transactional data” and BICT is data processing power required by leverage the functionality and cillary and third party technolo-
a TOS is, in fact, often two or more ning Tideworks Spinnaker on a not able to implement other the terminal to be considered. tools that are only available with gies which integrate with the
separate applications; the actual standalone basis without a TOS. Tideworks products such as its Tideworks says the key trigger the TOS at the core, this would TOS, including scale interfaces
TOS is a data handling applica- “As a somewhat smaller operation, web-based tools Mainsail Online points are volume-driven and de- be a trigger point. and gate operating systems such
tion that manages all the terminal BICT has been able to derive sub- and Forecast. pend on the data processing power “These do not only include as Tideworks’ own GateVision,”
data on container inventory and stantial benefits - time savings, en- When volume does reach the the terminal needs. “There is no the Web applications indicated Schwank said. a74
related transactions. hanced inventory control, im- point where a “full scale, robust set volume threshold, but as a gen-
Applications such as Spinna- proved operational planning and TOS” is required, BICT will be eral rule a terminal handling more
ker are planning and management control - from the implementa- able to integrate Mainsail seam- than 100,000-150,000 TEU per
systems that leverage the TOS data tion of a graphical planning sys- lessly with Spinnaker. “At that year could probably benefit greatly
On the move
to provide graphical functionality tem on a standalone basis,” said point BICT would also be able to from a robust, full-scale TOS ca-
and a level of automation to key Tideworks president Mike leverage other Tideworks systems, pable of handling high volumes of
functions such as preparing a ves- Schwank. Spinnaker provides a such as our web tools, and thereby transactional data. Likewise, when
to SPARCS N4
Port Klang terminal Northport configurable options within the
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has started preparing to transi- core application and open APIs
tion from Navis SPARCS to to integrate third party appli-
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Navis’ next generation TOS, cations such as gate OCR.
SPARCS N4. With over 200 terminals us-
Navis has a number of large ing SPARCS, it is not possible
terminals signed up to migrate to provide all the functionality
to N4, including Maher Termi- at every site as a configurable
nals in New York/New Jersey option. Northport staff have had
and South Africa’s Transnet Port extensive training in SPARCS
Terminals. However, at 3M TEU N4 and are now in the audit
Northport is one of the biggest stage where they will compare
yet to make the change and one their full management systems
of the more complex operations. against SPARCS N4 item by
Formed from a merger of item. Where gaps are identified,
KPM and KCT in 2000, the terminal then has to con-
Northport operates three con- sider whether it can modify its
tainer terminals and for some work method to reflect a con-
time has been converting the figuration in the software or
former KCT terminal from a take another route to add func-
straddle carrier to an RTG yard tionality.
system. This is being done in Navis caters for this with a
stages over several years and will standard API for the Groovy dy-
not be completed for some time. namic scripting language. Using
In 2005, Northport imple- in-house resources, a contractor
mented SPARCS for vessel or Navis Services, SPARCS N4
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which was interfaced to its own tomisation outside the core ap-
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in-house TOS. It also imple- plication.
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combines stowage factors with make the transition to SPARCS
yard constraints to improve ves- N4 within 12 months, it will take
sel productivity, and Navis yard longer for Northport as it is con-
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optimiser Expert Decking. solidating its yard operations and
For some terminals the need implementing other systems at
to migrate to higher density yard the same time. Some of the ini-
systems will be the trigger point tiatives, such as moving from a
that leads them to implement common truck interchange area
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Charles Gerard, Navis’s director major operational changes and
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