The Georgia Ports Authority and Kaleris today announced that their collaboration launching the Navis N4 terminal operating system at the Port of Savannah earned a 2023 Top Supply Chain Projects Award from Supply and Demand Chain Executive. The Top Supply Chain Projects Award profiles the most innovative projects that optimize and improve the supply chain for all stakeholders.
“As the nation’s third-busiest gateway for containerized trade, millions of people, businesses, and organizations rely on our essential services,” said Bill Sutton, Chief Information Officer at Georgia Ports Authority. “With more carriers and shippers selecting the Port of Savannah as their preferred East Coast gateway, we continued to experience record volumes and decided to expedite an infrastructure project to add 1.7 million TEUs of annual container yard capacity. A major crux of the project involved ensuring the right technology was in place to optimize infrastructure performance and accelerate the movement of cargo while minimizing disruption to our customers.”
After extensive research, the GPA selected the Navis N4 terminal operating system (TOS) from Kaleris. A state-of-the-art TOS, N4 optimizes operations for high-volume container terminals through intelligent planning and movement of goods, visibility and asset utilization. The system improves velocity across the terminal, eliminates data silos and enables the GPA to easily provide its customers, which includes all major shipping lines, retailers, vessel operators, rail and trucking companies, with the data and insights they need. N4 processes more than 40 percent of the global container volume annually at ports around the world.
While the N4 implementation project had an overall objective of driving more efficient operations to enable growth, the cutover from the legacy terminal operating system to N4 remained a crucial and highly challenging element within the project. Solved through careful planning and…
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