
Is your terminal congested, using legacy tools, or is your current solution lacking intelligence to meet your KPIs?
Portchain Berth Optimisation Engine helps terminals that want to increase their quayside profitability by modernising their berth planning. We see the journey to better berth planning in three phases:
- Go Digital – replace spreadsheets or legacy tools for a strong foundation.
- Build a Community – increase trust and confidence within your terminal and with your customers by sharing plans.
- Add Optimisation Intelligence – introduce capacity and save on operational costs through AI-driven prediction and optimisation.
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Why Portchain?

Planning speed
Offer better customer service and free up planners’ time with smart end to end planning solutions

Plan Accuracy and Reliability
Ensure the plans built are robust and extend your planning horizon to reduce last-minute changes

Terminal Performance
Plan with your customer’s service level. Focus on berth productivity and collaboration

Labour Efficiency
Create the most efficient plan and balance the operational constraints

Asset Utilisation
Deploy optimisation and AI to increase capacity and lower the cost of operations
Reference case
Russia’s leading operator of container terminals
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Total capacity
2.2M TEU
per year
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Total quay length
4900m
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Number of cranes
23 STS
“With Portchain we will be able to track berth operations in real-time and plan equipment and personnel more precisely. Our customers will have access to vessel handling data, which will allow them to optimise the planning of cargo operations at the terminal as well as further logistics, thereby reducing their costs.”
Marc Niederer
COO of Global Ports

Russia’s leading operator of container terminals
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Total capacity
2.2M TEU
per year -
Total quay length
4900m
-
Number of cranes
23 STS
Marc Niederer
COO of Global PortsReference case
Largest container terminal in Portugal
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Total capacity
2.3M TEU
per year
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Total quay length
946m
+ 200 m feeder berth
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Number of cranes
10 STS
+ 2 mobile cranes

Largest container terminal in Portugal
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Total capacity
2.3M TEU
per year -
Total quay length
946m
+ 200 m feeder berth -
Number of cranes
10 STS
+ 2 mobile cranes
Reference case
5th largest container shipping company in the world
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Volume transported
12M TEU
per year
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Total fleet capacity
1.7M TEU
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Fleet
248 vessels
“Portchain’s cloud-based solution provides powerful insights into the robustness of schedules and allows us to quickly make changes in real time. We look forward to creating additional value from this partnership for our customers.”
Jörn Springer
Senior Director, Fleet Support Center

5th largest container shipping company in the world
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Volume transported
12M TEU
per year -
Total fleet capacity
1.7M TEU
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Fleet
248 vessels
Jörn Springer
Senior Director, Fleet Support CenterReference case
Malaysia’s most advanced container terminal, located at the confluence of the main east-west shipping lanes
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Total capacity
12.5M TEU
per year
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Total quay length
5040m
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Number of cranes
66 STS
“We are on an ambitious multi-year digitization journey to ensure we continue to deliver exceptional service to our customers, and we want to work with partners that share our vision in the industry. To achieve our ambition, we are using world-leading solutions such as Portchain’s Berth Optimization Engine”
Joe Schofield
COO, Port of Tanjung Pelepas

Malaysia’s most advanced container terminal, located at the confluence of the main east-west shipping lanes
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Total capacity
12.5M TEU
per year -
Total quay length
5040m
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Number of cranes
66 STS