Optimising lift stowage

Maximising the efficiency of both vessel and port side handling is a win-win situation all round for the operator and the terminal.

Evergreen and Navis have entered into a new partnership to optimise lift stowage operations using the StowMan and Vessel Pool solutions for efficient and compliant cargo loading, stowage planning and vessel performance.

“The challenging situations that we have seen at sea in the past few months require a new approach to marine cargo transportation in order to address the variety of demands that ocean carriers are facing,” said Ajay Bharadwaj, senior director product management at Navis.

Cargo management

The tools enable Evergreen finds access to advanced lashing calculations inside the stowage planning tool. The Navis solution helps provide highly efficient cargo capacity management, but balances this with vessel safety.

“With the ever increasing complexity in the seaborne trade and the accelerated needs for larger volumes of cargo on ships, it is of utmost importance for us to find a balance between capacity maximisation and safe vessel operations in daily and in extraordinary situations,” said Captain Y.S. Hwang, Deputy Senior VP Operation Department at Evergreen Marine Corp. (Taiwan) Ltd. 

StowMan Control Center and Distributed Services provides a scalable framework to transform the stand-alone tool, StowMan, into a connected client-server setup, while maintaining full offline planning capabilities. Vessel Pool allows planners to work with up-to-date ship profiles.