Load Carrier Management on RoRo-Terminals

The transparency of location and status of loadings and load carriers is particularly important for efficient warehouse management on seaport terminals. Today detection of load carrier movement processes and modified status information is insufficiently supported by software systems. An automated IT-based load carrier management system offers a wide range of opportunities for tracking and tracing positions and status information of loadings and load carriers. A permanent monitoring of changes regarding location and status allows the usage of innovative stock-keeping strategies, search time reduction, decrease of relocation processes and overall an improvement of the traffic flow on the seaport terminal area. This article addresses the design and modelling of a system that enables automated detection of location and status of load carriers on seaport terminals combining innovative information and communication technologies for identification, communication and localisation tasks. Superior objective is the improved process monitoring in the context of RoRo traffic.