News • 27.04.2023
Binding container slot booking in Bremerhaven
EUROGATE CTB sets the course for a uniform solution throughout the German seaports
On May 2, 2023, EUROGATE Container Terminal Bremerhaven (CTB) will introduce mandatory pre-booking and slot booking for truck handling at the CTB and MSC Gate terminals. The basis of the new system is the IT platform Truckgate operated by DAKOSY, which has been mandatory for container handling in Hamburg since 2017. EUROGATE CTB is thus setting the course for a uniform slot booking process in all German seaports.
"User-friendliness and well-established processes were the main factors for us in the selection process. With our connection to Truckgate, there is now an end-to-end registration process for truckers in the seaports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven," explains Marc Dieterich, Managing Director of EUROGATE CTB. The overall port perspective is underlined by DAKOSY board member Ulrich Wrage: "We are pleased that EUROGATE has chosen the well-established Truckgate system and is thus contributing to a uniform process across all seaports. Homogeneous digital solutions bring the ports together."
The preceding pilot phase showed how well slot booking was accepted by truckers. EUROGATE CTB and DAKOSY attribute the high acceptance to the familiarity of Truckgate and the ease of technical use. The figures confirm this. At the end of the pilot phase, about one-third of the nearly 1,000 trucks handled daily were already pre-planned via Truckgate.
Run times targeted for 20 minutes
With the introduction of Truckgate, EUROGATE aims to further increase the quality of handling on land. In concrete terms, this means shorter handling times for truckers. Wienbeck specifies: "We want to reduce the current handling times, including the OCR check and PreGate phase, by at least 40 percent using Truckgate and thus become significantly faster. In conjunction with certain other measures, we see our goal at 20 minutes for a single run."
"We want to reduce the current handling times, including the OCR check and PreGate phase, by at least 40 percent using Truckgate and thus become significantly faster. In conjunction with certain other measures, we see our goal at 20 minutes for a single run."
