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AI orchestration for container terminals

A capacity unlock.
Not a system replacement.

PortXAI is an orchestration layer that sits above your TOS and continuously re-plans the next 72 hours across berths, cranes and transshipment connections. Eight specialist agents. One control tower. Every recommendation carries its reasoning, its constraints, and its dollar-priced impact.

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Read-only by default 72-hour rolling horizon Human-in-the-loop

Why now

Throughput is scaling faster than planner headcount or berth CapEx can follow.

The binding constraint at large terminals is no longer steel — it's coordination. Volatility is up, planner headroom is finite, and CapEx alone can't close the gap. What's left is latent capacity, already built and already staffed.

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Volatility is up

Geopolitical reroutes, blank sailings and weather disruption now force replans multiple times per day.

24h

Planning horizon is short

Berth plans are assembled in spreadsheets against a 24-hour window by a small group of expert planners.

~750K

TEU of latent capacity per year

At a 7M TEU terminal, a 10% utilization uplift is ~750,000 additional TEU — already built, already financed.

The product

Eight specialist agents. One control tower.

Five agents for berth and transshipment orchestration; three dedicated to your STS crane fleet. Every recommendation ships with its reasoning, the constraints it respected, and a dollar-priced before/after — so planners trust it on day one.

Berth · Transshipment
Berth-Sequencer
Core planning · 800+ candidate plans per cycle · MILP + heuristics.
Cranes
Crane-Orchestrator
Per-STS assignment · twin-lift · tandem-lift · borrow logic.
Cranes
Crane-Health-Predictor
Failure probability at 7 / 30 / 90 days · TIC4 telemetry · PM windows.
Berth · Transshipment
ULCV-Choreographer
24K-TEU class · Crane Intensity target · yard buffer pre-staging.
Berth · Transshipment
Connection Choreographer
Transshipment link management · BAPLIE ⊕ COPRAR · cascade $.
Berth · Transshipment
Tide-Window
Tide + weather feeds · pilotable-window safety veto.
Berth · Transshipment
SLA-Guardian
Contract compliance · priority-berth · 12h pre-breach flag.
Berth · Transshipment
Value-Modeler
Dollar impact on every recommendation · CFO-facing translation.
AT SCALE · 23-STS fleet · ~7M TEU/yr · ~$48M annualized value envelope · ~$18M from crane-level orchestration alone

The impact

Berth capacity, demurrage, crane intensity, downtime — measurable in a single quarter.

Ranges reflect published benchmarks for AI-assisted terminal planning and PortXAI internal modelling. Final uplift is pilot-validated before any production commitment.

Berth capacity
+8–12%
From better sequencing of existing calls — no CapEx required.
Demurrage exposure
−15–20%
Earlier conflict detection cuts vessel waiting time and compensation.
Crane Intensity (CI)
+10–15%
Drewry CPPI metric — twin-lift and tandem-lift orchestration raise effective STS moves/hour without new steel.
STS unplanned downtime
−20–30%
Predictive-maintenance windows scheduled 30–90 days ahead using TIC4 telemetry — failures moved out of peak windows.
At a 7M-TEU terminal: a 10% berth-utilization uplift is ~700,000 additional TEU per year. Add a 12% Crane Intensity gain across a 23-STS fleet and the annualized value envelope sits at ~$48M — of which ~$18M comes from crane-level orchestration alone.

How we ship

Read-only by design. Embedded by delivery. Explainable by default.

We don't replace your Terminal Operating System. We sit above it, consume the data it already produces, and hand recommendations back to your planners with full audit trails.

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    Read-only by default

    PortXAI consumes data from TOS and PCS. It does not write back to your systems unless the planner explicitly approves.

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    Human-in-the-loop

    Every recommendation is a suggestion. Planners remain the decision-makers; every action is logged and auditable.

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    Explainable, not a black box

    Reasoning, constraints and before/after impact travel with every recommendation — not buried in logs.

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    Embedded, not handed over

    Delivered by a dedicated 3-person PortXAI pod that works inside your team — from diagnostic through go-live.

Get in touch

30 minutes to walk you through the working prototype — on your terminal's operating pattern.

Tell us about your terminal. We'll come back with the demo, a pilot scope and a first-cut value envelope specific to your operation.