Product

Berth Allocation

A constraint solver that knows your quay, your cranes, and your stevedore shift pattern.

Overview

Berth Allocation in one paragraph.

The allocator works from vessel length, beam, draft, cargo type, stevedore shift boundaries, gantry-crane reach, and any local restriction you can express as a rule — air draft under a bridge, a tidal window, a berth that cannot take hazardous cargo after dark.

It re-runs on any ETA delta over 90 minutes, or on demand. A re-run for a terminal handling up to 4M TEU a year completes in under four seconds at P95, and the new allocation is written back to the TOS where the source system allows it.

Constraints
Length, beam, draft, air draft, cargo class, crane reach, shift boundaries, tidal windows
Trigger
ETA delta over 90 minutes (configurable), manual re-run, or upstream berth release
Re-run time
Under 4 seconds P95 at 4M TEU/year
Explainability
Every allocation carries the binding constraint that produced it
Manual override
Planners can pin a vessel to a berth; the solver plans around the pin
4s
Re-run, P95
90 min
Default ETA trigger
73→88%
Utilisation, first customer
1
Binding constraint shown

Customers

From a port running this today.

We ran four systems that each believed a different arrival time. Anchora did not replace any of them — it made them agree, and berth utilisation moved from 73% to 88% in the first quarter.

Henrik Ek — COO, Port of Gothenburg

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