In simple terms, the goals are to protect the ship and the cargo, maximize capacity utilization, minimize loading and unloading time, cost at a port or terminal, minimize the bunkering to achieve effective seaworthy balance, and eventually resulting in maximizing contribution from a vessel. The idea is to develop an optimized stowage plan quickly and achieving multiple goals efficiently. The increase in the vessel capacity also resulted in an increased complexity of planning for efficient and effective stowage. With the advancement in technology, today we have ships that can carry more than 19,000 TEUs. The traditional manual planning system may yield sub-optimal plans, take humongous man hours and efforts for large vessel planning and most of the time inefficient. Recent years the need for auto stowage planning is more pressing because of the increased planning complexity levels for the larger ships and increased stack heights. It is a program that automatically allocates bay slots on a vessel, by achieving the certain business objective, satisfying multiple constraints, restrictions and business rules. Auto Stowage Planning System is a productivity tool for stowage planners.
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