The Ship Loading and Unloading Planning System (Speed in Portuguese), developed by VLI to promote more efficiency in cargo loading and unloading, is now employed at the Diverse Products Terminal (TPD). Located in Vitória, Espírito Santo, the TPD is in Brazil’s largest private port complex: the Tubarão complex. The software, already part of the company’s operations at the Port of Pecém, began to be implemented at TPD in July 2021. According to Luciano Gonçalves Pereira, VLI’s manager of Digital Transformation for Ports and Terminals, the estimated gain with the tool is a two-hour gain per vessel. “With 45 ships in berth four operated by VLI, the gain will be a reduction of 90 operating hours in one year,” he estimates. The next phase of Speed, the boarding plan, is scheduled to start operating at the TPD in early 2023.
Source: Datamar News