Blockshipping AI Import Container Dwelltime Prediction (AI-IDP)

Blockshipping’s AI-IDP product is addressing an inefficiency that has been inherent in the container terminal industry for decades.

There are approximately 1,000 container terminals globally, and for decades these terminals have been performing an excessive number of non-productive moves of containers in each terminal in order to serve the customers of the terminals.

By applying sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms on import containers, it is possible to predict how long import containers will remain in the container terminal before being delivered to the importer. This enables intelligent stacking of import containers in the container terminal and thereby elimination of a very large part of these non-productive moves.

On a medium sized container terminal, this has proven a potential to eliminate a very significant amount of unnecessary container moves annually, resulting in a CO2 reduction of more than 2000 tons CO2 and a substantial monetary saving.