At Progress Software’s Analyst Summit 2009, there was a case study presentation about Apama empowering advanced international logistics in terms of shipping and ports management. The customer is Royal Dirkzwager, which since its founding in 1872 has developed into the maritime information and service provider for Northwest Europe, with a strong focus on the Port of Rotterdam.
Dirkzwager deals with vast information on vessels’ characteristics, ship’s position reports, and ever-varying estimated times of arrival (ETAs) and actual times of arrival (ATAs). From about 200 position reports per second 10 years ago or so, today the company has to deal with over 1,000 position reports per second. Dirkzwager’s public sector customers are the related port authorities, port state control, customs, seaport police, and coast guard. Private sector customers are ship owners and agents, terminals, and service providers (pilots, tugs, maintenance crews, etc.).
One of the business issues for the company has been to integrate berth planning for terminals and employee planning for authorities and service providers into its customers’ business processes. Another issue for Dirkzwager has been the globalization of customers and its geographical coverage expansion.
Namely, from customarily focusing on Rotterdam, the company intends to focus on northwest Europe and, albeit to a much lesser extent, on a worldwide coverage. Last but not least, harnessing electronic position information tools such as AIS (Automatic Identification System) and LRIT (Long Range Identification & Tracking) has become much more important.
Dirkzwager reportedly implemented Apama due to its capability to handle different position report types and to handle large amounts of position reports (i.e., scalability). Also, the company’s employees can now create and modify business rules for the port’s operation. As for future directions, the port operator company expects to enable customers to create own business rules, and to also be able to process port related messages such as route advice and monitoring. The latter capability should result in a reduced overall fuel consumption and improved port arrival planning.
Dirkzwager deals with vast information on vessels’ characteristics, ship’s position reports, and ever-varying estimated times of arrival (ETAs) and actual times of arrival (ATAs). From about 200 position reports per second 10 years ago or so, today the company has to deal with over 1,000 position reports per second. Dirkzwager’s public sector customers are the related port authorities, port state control, customs, seaport police, and coast guard. Private sector customers are ship owners and agents, terminals, and service providers (pilots, tugs, maintenance crews, etc.).
One of the business issues for the company has been to integrate berth planning for terminals and employee planning for authorities and service providers into its customers’ business processes. Another issue for Dirkzwager has been the globalization of customers and its geographical coverage expansion.
Namely, from customarily focusing on Rotterdam, the company intends to focus on northwest Europe and, albeit to a much lesser extent, on a worldwide coverage. Last but not least, harnessing electronic position information tools such as AIS (Automatic Identification System) and LRIT (Long Range Identification & Tracking) has become much more important.
Dirkzwager reportedly implemented Apama due to its capability to handle different position report types and to handle large amounts of position reports (i.e., scalability). Also, the company’s employees can now create and modify business rules for the port’s operation. As for future directions, the port operator company expects to enable customers to create own business rules, and to also be able to process port related messages such as route advice and monitoring. The latter capability should result in a reduced overall fuel consumption and improved port arrival planning.
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