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Best Practices to Reduce Dock Idle Time

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PortVision helps over 30 terminals optimize
dock operations.

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Dock Utilization
• Calculated as a percentage
of time the dock is occupied
vs. vacant vs. outage
• Outage Types
– Within the terminal’s
control (dredging, jetty work)
– Outside the terminal's control (weather,
tides)

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How do you calculate dock utilization?
• No standard calculation for utilization
• Terminals calculate utilization in different
ways for operations and marketing
• Utilization numbers will increase when
external outages times are excluded.

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Dock Idle time
• Idle time is an efficiency measurement of
vessel call management
• Total time any vessel is alongside and not
transferring cargo
• Reduction of idle time will decrease overall
dock utilization
• Lower dock utilization = Increased opportunity
for more vessel calls

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How to reduce dock idle time
• Benchmarking and Trending of KPIs
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Vessel Calls
• Idle time can occur in
distinct periods of
vessel call events
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Logging your Events is the Key
• Consistently identifying & recording vessel
call events is paramount
• Providing an easy, real-time method for
event logging allows
quick reaction times
• Log both routine
events and delays,
both impact idle time

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So how do I use this data?
• Promote friendly competition between shifts
• Identify which shift is able to complete
routine events
more efficiently
• Transfer practices
from efficient shifts
to others
• Compare Inspector call out times
• Use results to strengthen dialogue with
inspection companies and customers

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Delays count!
• Focus attention where it can be best applied
• Pre, Transfer and
Post Delays
• Terminal Delays
• Customer Delays
• Vessel Delays
• Identify most
impactful delays and work to reduce these
first

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Demurrage, not my problem, right?
• Public Terminals are not exposed to
demurrage.
• Customers and Operators are.
• All things being equal would a potential client
choose a relationship with a terminal who
paid attention to demurrage over one who
did not?

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Who are the responsible stakeholders?
• Managing Idle time
is every stakeholder’s
responsibility
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• After implementing our system, one
terminal:
• Decreased idle time by 8%
• Saved $600K per site/annually
Is all this really worth it?

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Contact Information
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Bob Kessler
Director of Business Development, Enterprise Systems
Oceaneering International Inc
T 832.409.1777
rkessler@oceaneering.com
www.portvision.com