A port call concept facilitating Just-In-Time ship-port operations<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paving the way and demonstrating how future port calls can be designed to be more efficient, sustainable, and resilient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Port calls sit at the heart of maritime transport, yet the way they are coordinated today remains a significant source of inefficiency and avoidable emissions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ships frequently race to port only to wait at anchor<\/strong> for hours or days \u2014 a costly, emission-intensive buffer driven by fragmented communication, outdated or unshared timestamps, and a first-come-first-served culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most ports still often rely on bilateral phone calls, emails and siloed IT systems, with mostly only the ETA officially exchanged, while more useful coordination points go unused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This webinar presents the DYNAPORT Blueprint of Port Call Processes<\/strong>: a structured reference model for optimising and harmonising how ships, terminals, authorities and service providers coordinate a port call from planning through execution to follow-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We will walk through the blueprint\u2019s architecture \u2014 its five phases (pre-arrival, port arrival, berth visit, port departure, post-departure), its three layers (operations, P3C coordination, and contracts & regulations), and the core enablers that make coordination work in practice, including a standardised set of timestamps built on the Estimated \u2192 Requested \u2192 Planned \u2192 Actual framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A central focus is the P3C, a conceptual coordination function<\/strong> that acts as the intermediary between ship side and port side \u2014 collecting and sharing information, synchronising planning on real-time data, and replacing redundant parallel exchanges with a single source of truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n