Use Cases

Cutting port turnaround time on a multi-port container string

Stowage planning for a vessel calling multiple ports on a multi-port string

Aerial view of a fully loaded container ship departing a port at golden hour

USE CASE / STOWAGE · CONTAINER

Published product metrics

Hull stations modelled

Compliance

SOLAS · IMDG

Turnaround time

−30%

These figures match the published metrics on the Predictim ISPS — Stowage Planning product page — this walkthrough is a composite scenario, not a specific engagement.

The challenge

Stowage planning for a vessel calling multiple ports on a multi-port string

Segment: Multi-port container stowage planning

Manual stowage planning on a multi-port string is a genuinely hard combinatorial problem: every container's discharge port, weight, and hazard class interacts with every other one, and a plan that looks fine loading at the origin port can force expensive overstows two calls later. Planners typically work from experience and checklists, without a structural stress or stability view that updates as the plan changes, and SOLAS threshold breaches get caught late rather than flagged as the plan is built.

The approach

How the deployment was structured

Optimising for the whole string, not one port

The stowage optimiser generates plans against the full discharge-port sequence up front, specifically to avoid the overstows that a port-by-port approach creates.

Stability computed as cargo loads

Draft, trim, heel, and metacentric height update dynamically across 21 longitudinal hull stations as the plan is built, not as a separate check afterward.

Structural limits flagged before they're breached

Shear force and bending moment curves carry automatic SOLAS threshold flags, catching a structurally unsound plan before it reaches the vessel.

Dangerous goods segregation by design

Hazardous cargo placement is checked against IMDG segregation rules as the plan is generated, not audited after loading begins.

What changed

Planning against the full multi-port sequence — instead of one port at a time — is what removes the overstows that would otherwise drive up turnaround time at the second and third calls on the string.

Product used