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News » General news » Shipping lines could save $10m by cutting 30 minutes off port calls
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| 03/12/2012 |
| Shipping lines could save $10m by cutting 30 minutes off port calls |
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Shipping lines could save millions of dollars in fuel costs if time spent in ports was decreased by even the most marginal amounts, claims new analysis from container shipping consultancy SeaIntel.
The company, in conjunction with industry group the Global Institute of Logistics and software provider Cirrus Group, set out to discover what the effects would be on a scheduled liner service if the time it took for a port to berth a vessel was incrementally reduced. The study focused on time savings that could be made through the optimisation of the berthing process, from the point a ship arrives, on time, at its station.
The results are nothing less than startling. By reducing the berthing time of a vessel in and out of ports, an extra lag is created in the liner's schedule which the shipping line can use to slow down the vessel en route to its next port of call by the equivalent amount of time saved in the previous port.
Source: The Load Star |
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