PRISE wins plaudits for Port of Hamburg

Launch of the Port River Information System Elbe (PRISE) follows a one year trial. The new IT platform brings together all information on ship arrivals and departures from all of the parties involved in the handling process, including the terminals, pilots, shipping companies/brokers, tugs and mooring people as well as the Harbour Master Authority.

At the Port of Hamburg and on the Elbe, an increasing number of ever larger ships require handling within narrow time frames. A more rapid flow of information between all of the involved parties is essential in order to cope with the growing level of complexity for planning and execution. PRISE will improve planning for proceeding up the estuary of the river Elbe as well as of shipping movements at the port and thus accelerate the flow of traffic.

The development of PRISE was coordinated by the Hamburg software firm and port community system DAKOSY together with Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), EUROGATE, the Elbe Pilots Association, the Port of Hamburg Pilots Association and Hamburg Port Authority (HPA). The platform was initiated and financed by the two terminal operators, HHLA and EUROGATE.

“Everyone involved benefits from the transparent flow of information. PRISE provides greater efficiency for our management of the sequencing and arrival of container mega-ships. Our customers and also the port as a whole benefit from this,” says Heinrich Goller, managing director of HHLA Container Terminals.

Peter Zielinski, managing director of EUROGATE’s Container Terminal Hamburg added: “This central information platform enables us to plan ahead further into the future, react more rapidly to changes at short notice and make more efficient use of our resources.”