Solutions

Bulk & Break-bulk Ports

Draft surveys, tidal windows, conveyor allocation, and cargo that does not arrive in boxes.

Overview

Bulk & Break-bulk Ports in one paragraph.

Bulk operations plan against tonnage and tide rather than against container moves. Anchora models draft surveys, loading rates per conveyor and hopper, stockpile-to-hold sequencing, and the tidal window that decides whether a vessel sails tonight or tomorrow.

Break-bulk adds the awkward cases: project cargo with a lifting plan, a heavy-lift crane booked three weeks out, and a hold sequence that cannot be reordered once loading starts. Those are constraints in the same solver.

Cargo model
Tonnage, grade, stockpile, hold sequence, lifting plan
Tidal windows
Modelled per berth with a configurable safety margin
Equipment
Conveyors, hoppers, grabs, heavy-lift cranes, mobile harbour cranes
Draft surveys
Initial and final survey captured and reconciled against the bill of lading
Products
Vessel Scheduling, Berth Allocation, Customs & Documentation
Tide
Modelled per berth
t/h
Rate-based planning
Draft
Survey reconciliation
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Products typical

Customers

From a port running this today.

I have had to justify a platform purchase to a board that does not care about software. The number I used was seven weeks to go-live.

Fatima Al-Sayegh — Head of Digital, Khalifa Port

Solutions

Other port archetypes.

Next step

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