Decision Support for Port Visits

Ports have an important role for global trade. They serve as locations for transhipments to be made and as intermodal connection points between sea-based and land-based transportation. Some ports also offer additional services of refinement of goods that pass through them. For the port, there exist great challenges to balance between a large degree of flexibility on one hand and having a solid structure of plans for forthcoming visits by ships and different types of hinterland carriers.