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New Wave rolls in Better RTG control software
double
Adelaide-based Wave Systems add on modules such as ware-
Terminal Pacifico Sur Valparaíso
Australia is launching a new housing” said customer support
(TPSV) at the port of Valparaíso
TOS called TMSPro onto the manager Hana Pokorna.
for TSB
in Chile is implementing new
global market. The TOS market has been
RTG control software from Ham-
The TMSPro TOS provides a tough for new entrants to crack
burg Port Consulting (HPC) to
wide range of functionality in- over the years, particularly as ter-
support one of the highest
Korea’s Total Softbank (TSB) has
cluding vessel planning, yard minals often require a reference
throughput per hectare operations
won another contract from the
management, equipment control, from a customer using the appli-
in the world.
Swedish Port of Gothenburg,
a database, EDI processing, reefer cation in a IM+ TEU terminal.
Like many older city ports,
which last year contracted to re-
monitoring, management report- Pokorna says Wave Systems is
TPSV has a small and irregularly
place the Cosmos Ships vessel
ing and a web based portal for aware that its customer base is not
shaped yard area that is not opti-
planning system with TSB’s
external customers from within as extensive as its competitors and
mal for a container terminal. TPSV
CATOS product.
the one application. that “some may regard our prod-
began operating the terminal with
TSB has now won a contract
The company’s other trans- ucts as not fully established. How-
reach stackers but decided to move
to replace Gothenburg’s Vessel
portation products include EPMS ever, we believe that to be an ad-
TPSV has one of the highest throughput per hectare operations in the world
to an RTG system when through-
Traffic Management System
for empty container parts, vantage as all our products are
put surged to over 400,000TEU autosteering and container position ment. Developed by Germany’s
(VTMS) with its own PLUS (Port
RailTrack for railway systems and brand new systems utilising the
in 2004. system to leverage its real time in- Interschalt Maritime Systems,
Logistics Unifying System) appli-
TruckSmart for Transport opera- latest technologies and platforms
In 2005 TPS took delivery of formation on equipment position STOWMAN manages the plan-
cation, a comprehensive, inte-
tors. All the products can be available to date.”
eight Kalmar 7+1 wide, one over and optimise RTG moves. ning process for load and discharge
grated, web-based port manage-
seamlessly integrated to provide TMSPro was designed to be
five high machines and the fleet has To meet TPSV’s requirements of container and multi-purpose
ment information system that pro-
a solution for multimodal/multi a comprehensive replacement for
now grown to 12. Annual container HPC redesigned the equipment vessels and includes functionality
vides real-time access to the full
businesses. the disparate systems many ter-
throughput on the 16 hectare site, control system in CTIS. Job re- for automated stowage planning.
range of operational information
Wave Systems has imple- minals currently use to manage
(only 13 hectares of which is us- quirements from the CTIS Job STOWMAN plans the loading
of the vessel for users.
mented TMSPro at DPW Ad- their operations, while enabling
able space) has now almost ex- Control Monitor are sent to a and discharge sequences, including
“There are several sub-systems
elaide, where it replaced Navis a high level of custom-isation and
ceeded 1M TEU and at around stack job processor, which feeds crane splits, and needs to be syn-
to PLUS including VCS PLUS
products with an integrated integration with other technolo-
71,000 TEU (2008) per hectare is them into the stack activity pool. chronised with the yard system.
and MSS PLUS, which form a
package of TMSPro, EPMS and gies such as OCR and GPS.
higher than that in South East Asian The stack activity pool takes job CTIS will have an online interface
complete solution to be provided
RailTrack in 2006. It has since Scalability is addressed through an
terminals, which average in the re- orders and information from the to STOWMAN that will enable
to the Port of Gothenburg under
implemented a web-based inter- architecture that stores all of the
gion of 40,000 TEU/hectare. SmartRail Controller and CTIS TPSV to use the crane split func-
the agreement along with an AIS
face and vehicle booking system data in a database system separate
This is partly achieved through equipment controller and assigns tionality and send real time crane
(Automated Identification Sys-
for another DPW terminal, from the application, so higher
the use of an inland logistics park work to individual cranes through planning information to CTIS. The
tem),” TSB said. “In addition, the
DPW Caucedo. Here it also de- throughput terminals can simply
called ZEAL, which has an (al- a yard crane work dispatcher. exchange also benefits vessel plan-
system is to work interactively
veloped a custom interface to purchase more database hardware.
most) exclusive road link to TPSV, Actual equipment position of ning as the pierlist in STOWMAN
with the Port of Gothenburg’s
other software including a Bill- To minimise the total cost of
allowing it to make extensive use the RTGs is stored in SmartRail can be generated based on the real
other systems whereby seamless
ing Module, Customer Manage- ownership, the system runs on
of off-terminal storage but also re- and sent to CTIS via an RS-322 time situation of the yard.
integration also plays a key role.”
ment Module and Terminal common hardware and software
quires very efficient management interface connecting the SmartRail A key challenge for HPC was
As previously reported, the
Services Module. The Billing platforms, including cheaper da-
of the terminal by the TOS. PC to the RDT in the driver’s configuring the software to antici-
Port of Gothenburg has lost sev-
System contains an interface to tabase options such as Microsoft
TPSV has been using HPC’s cabin. The CTIS crane dispatcher pate upcoming problems created by
eral million dollars on in-house
the terminal’s bank, enabling cli- SQL Server as well as higher-vol-
Container Terminal Information module benefits from using real the irregular shape of the terminal
IT developments over the last five
ents to pay for storage and yard ume options like Oracle.
System (CTIS) since 2001 and time position information in cal- and its high utilisation. This has
years and has taken the decision
services online. Redundancy options include
HPC is currently working on a culating workloads and dispatch- been achieved and issues can be re-
to purchase off-the-shelf products
Other Wave Systems’ custom- full data mirroring or, for smaller
three-phase project to optimise the ing jobs to the RTGs, and the yard solved automatically through algo-
in future. Although TSB had won
ers include rail and road transport terminals that consider this too
RTG operation. The first phase was overview in the equipment con- rithms or user interaction.
the earlier contract with CATOS,
operators in Australia and a wine expensive, a system designed for
adding basic RTG control func- trol centre shows terminal control- The third and final phase of the
the VTMS component was bid
packaging supply company in a maximum computer downtime
tionality to TPSV’s version of CTIS lers the live position of all the project is to extend optimised yard
separately. “We are delighted to
South Africa. “Most of our cli- of no more than 10 minutes.
to get the RTG yard up and run- equipment on the terminal. planning to cover all the terminal
set up the system to serve as the
ents use a range of products in- Wave Systems is now market-
ning. The second phase is to pro- Another aspect of the project equipment, which should enable
platform for future development
corporated into one, including ing TMSPro on the global mar-
vide an advanced job control ad- is interfacing CTIS with the TPSV to operate the reach stacker
of Port of Gothenburg,” said TSB
EPMS, TRuckSMART and ket, targeting Asian and European
ministration system that is inte- STOWMAN vessel planning soft- fleet with the same level of effi-
president and CEO J S Choi.
RailTrack, plus some specialised markets initially. a74
a74 grated with Kalmar’s SmartRail ware TPSV has decided to imple- ciency as the RTGs. a74
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