Greater terminal efficiency in Florida

Federal Marine Terminals Inc. at Port Manatee in Florida, US, has gone live with the TOS by Octopi, which is part of Navis and Cargotec Corporation

“At Federal Marine Terminals, we have made it a priority to improve our performance to better support our customers’ changing business needs,” said Chris Dugas VP of Operations, FMT.

“We selected the Octopi software because it is user friendly and gave us the ability to have real-time data sharing for all of our stakeholders, giving us a competitive edge.”

Cleaner operations

Octopi is an intelligently simple, cloud-based terminal operating system (TOS).

It helps a wide variety of terminals manage their operations, track their cargo, and communicate electronically and in real-time with their commercial partners.

Octopi has all the features that you expect from a Terminal Operating System (TOS) — container inventory, gate processes, yard planning — and a few others, including automated invoicing and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Mr Dugas said that the software has already helped boost capabilities at the port.

As a tenant of the port, FMT implementing Octopi at Port Manatee provides visibility into its operations to keep its customers and FMT employees informed in real-time.

Located in Florida, Port Manatee is the closest US deepwater seaport to the Panama Canal and handles more than 10 million tonnes of cargo each year including bulk, breakbulk, container and general cargo.