Port Collaborative Decision Making

The purpose of PortCDM is to support the port call optimisation process by promoting:

• The extension of the planning horizons through intra port collaboration, ship-to-port collaboration, port-to-hinterland collaboration, and inter port collaboration.
• The sharing of the timing of future events for the coordination of the port call process
• The combination of multiple sources of data for enhanced predictability
• Shared situational awareness by sharing data on the progress of a port call among internal and external involved actors

For this purpose, PortCDM has been developed to meet the needs of a concept that would:

• enable real-time standardised information sharing of time stamps between actors involved in port calls
• enable just-in-time approaches by synchronising the ship’s approach to the port with the port’s ability to serve the ship for its purpose of call
• provide situational awareness as a basis for actors’ coordination of their actions performed in relation to forthcoming and on-going port calls

In this way, PortCDM contributes to the enhancement of integrated operations between actors involved in:

• the port call, avoiding unnecessary waiting times
• managing inbound and outbound cargo/passengers efficiently
• coordinating the ships’ sea voyages and the port approach, reducing unnecessary waiting times (anchoring times) for ship outside the port
• securing a smooth and precise transport timetable from port to hinterland of cargo and passengers