Intelligent Port Operations

Digitizing and Optimizing across the Maritime Value Chain

At VGD, we help organizations across the maritime supply chain ecosystem apply digital tools and insights to their most pressing business and operational challenges.

Component Technologies:

Big Data/IoT

Blockchain/DLT

Artificial Intelligence

Quantum Computing

Optimizing Maritime Shipping

Utilizing innovative 4IR tools, marine carriers can reinvent shipping operations to become, cleaner, safer, and more efficient. Solutions include:

  • Vessel fuel Optimization (VFO) - Our digital solutions can help shipping firms identify the fastest, most efficient route for any voyage and generate immediate, substantial fuel savings. VFO use AI to analyze vessel’s past performance and correlate those insights with meteorological and hydrographic forecasts. It provides prescriptive analytics in the form of detailed recommendations and waypoints for the optimal route

  • GIS Maritime Awareness - We are helping public and private sector organizations harness new GIS technologies to make the world’s waterways safer and allow marine carriers to work in harmony with local communities. By understanding where vessels are going and what they are carrying, these communities can improve safety of their won fishing and marine activities.

Improving Port Efficiency

Port and terminal operators can use these tools to optimize berth planning, loading and unloading, crane and gate operations, and more.

  • Intelligent Berth Planning - Assist ports with optimizing berth availability for shipping clients by providing visualization into real-time metrics (berth arrival times, vessel docking duration) to move more vessels into berths more quickly.

  • Port Operation Optimization - Optimize scheduling and maximize the use of available resources. Through better coordination of port activities and scheduling, port communities can increase overall throughput — reducing waste while significantly improving the bottom line.

Intelligent Contract Management

We assist key stakeholders with establishing a single digital and intelligent system of record for all contracts and contract data

  • Manage contracts at scale

  • Gain visibility into past, present, and pending contract data across the 120 silos of stakeholder contracts

  • Accelerate contracts drafting with efficient, standardized, and automated contracting processes 

  • Connect people, terms, and processes for faster contracting with a single digital contracting Hub

Community Safety

With our partners, we work to create a smart urban environment that integrates and interacts with multiple elements in a city to ensure urban safety for citizens. 

  • Gunshot Detection System

  • Connected Citizens 

  • Cameras with Analytics

  • City Asset Monitoring

Utilizing technology to keep citizens safe.