The DYNAPORT (Dynamic Navigation and Port Call Optimisation in Real Time) project reports that it has completed a ship-to-port machine-to-machine data exchange demonstrator, to show how digital processes could be used to replace multiple data entries and email attachments in port call planning.
Conducted in July, the ‘Port Call Planning on Ship’ demo involved a North Sea Container Line vessel transmitting documentation from NAVTOR’s onboard planning station to the Port Community System in Rotterdam.
The test also included the utilisation of new features in NAVTOR’s NavStation voyage planner, such as multi-arrival voyage planning and berth-to-berth auto-routing, alongside statistical analysis tools developed by Simula Research Laboratories to support safer navigation decisions.
DYNAPORT notes that work has also now started on a second demonstrator, ‘Arrival time change management’, led by the Port of Aalborg. This will focus on data acquisition and analysis of operational impacts when arrival times are adjusted, assessing costs, benefits and responsibilities among different stakeholders.
Further trials will continue through 2025.
DYNAPORT, launched in January 2024, is a three-year EU-funded initiative coordinated by SINTEF Ocean with 19 partners from across Europe, including NAVTOR, Simula Research Laboratories, the Port of Rotterdam, the Port of Aalborg, Kongsberg Maritime, and Grieg Star.
