One of our loyal customers, Tan Cang – Cai Mep International Terminal (TCIT) in Vietnam, had just achieved a remarkable milestone on 17 December 2020. Despite all odds of fighting changes from the pandemic, TCIT welcomed over 2 million TEUs this year – up 7% last year. Not only does this mark over six times what they started in 2011 but establishes a breakthrough as the first deep-water terminal apart from Tan Cang – Cat Lai Terminal, and second container terminal to accomplish this record.

RBS would like to congratulate the remarkable achievement and are grateful for our close to a decade relationship. Thank you for choosing RBS TOPS Advance as your TOS, and we will continue to look after you, facilitating further innovation and growth. What a way to end the year and we cannot wait to see more TCIT achievements in the future!

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SNP is the largest container terminal operator in Vietnam, primarily established for its sea-port operation services. They have remained at the forefront as terminal operators in Vietnam, accounting for more than 92% of the market share in Ho Chi Minh City area and 50% nationwide. A vast portion of this renowned growth is awarded to Tan Cang – Cat Lai terminal, which has developed a consistent increase in container throughput since the installation of RBS TOPS Terminal Operating System in 2008. From 2011 to 2018, the terminal increased its annual container throughput from approximately 2.6M TEUs to 4.7M TEUs.

Tan Cang – Cat Lai Terminal initially deployed TOPX Advance in 2008 as their graphical container planning and control system for port operations. By the end of 2015, they decided to adopt RBS’ TOPO Advance container management system and have since been running the full TOPS terminal operating system. The terminal still accomplished outstanding results from using only a fraction of the features offered in TOPS Advance.

The terminal has ten berths and is equipped with 30 QCs, all of which have been optimized using TOPS Advanced to induce an increase in QCs mph. With this proven solution, terminal capabilities will continue to optimize on resources and operations, which in term will drive further enhancements in performance.

Already, the terminal has achieved a grand milestone of being the largest and most modern international container terminal in Vietnam, located in District 2, Ho Chi Minh City. With the TOPS already providing real-time control and planning over terminal-, yard-, and warehousing-activities for free port and transhipment port services, the terminal can expect to achieve new goals taking their presence within the Container Handling Industry to greater heights.

A record of 208 containers per hour for the EXPRESS BERLIN vessel belonging to FE5 service, has been established as the highest handling productivity in Vietnam Maritime Industry. The service connects Vietnam and Europe and is operated by both Yang Ming and THE ALLIANCE. The record has exceeded the previous record of 198 containers per hour for the MOL ADVANTAGE vessel in April 2013.

The 5% increase in handling productivity is a milestone reflecting the strategic process for TCIT and reinforces the strong position of the Vietnam Maritime Industry worldwide. RBS offers our deep appreciation and is enthusiastic about working together to achieve greater results in the prospective future.

Klaipėdos Smeltė reported a record-breaking cargo throughput for 2018. The cargo turnover was up to 5.14 million tons which is an increase of 72% on a year-to-year basis. A big part of the growth could be accounted to the additional container volume MSC was bringing to the terminal. MSC is the mother company of Terminal Investment Limited (TIL) who is the major shareholder in the Smelte Terminal. With the additional import/expert and also transshipment volume the container traffic was up to 386.982 TEU in 2018.

For many years Smelte is a customer of ours, running the RBS TOS solution TOPS Advanced. We are proud to be part of this success.

Congratulations to the Smelte Team.

In December 2018 new container cranes have been delivered to the Multipurpose Terminal in Pelindo 1, Indonesia. The Kuala Tanjung Multipurpose Terminal (KTMT) Port, North Sumatra, will extend its services with these new container cranes. Together with the STS cranes, the terminal will operate automated RTGs (ARTGs) with the RBS TOPS System as the central TOS to control and manage the operations.

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Congratulations to Lomé Container Terminal (LCT) for the new performance record with 41.7 GMPH (total moves: 1788 containers) achieved on MSC Sabrina at 21st Oct 2018.

Congratulations to the whole team achieving this! Great effort!

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<p style="”text-align:justify”">Le Havre (France)/ Hamburg (Germany), 9/11/2018. The terminal operator CNMP – operating in France’s largest container port – has successfully completed the implementation of its TOS system, TOPS Advance provided by RBS. During the 14 months it took to complete the project, employees have been trained up and an interface to the IT system of the French port authority AP+ has been established. At the same time, CNMP has also updated its IT landscape.</p>

<p style="”text-align:justify”">The container terminal CNMP (Compagnie Nouvelle de Manutentions Portuaires) is situated in the port of Le Havre, the largest of its kind in France. Here, as is the case at all terminals, the Container planning and operations process is controlled using a Terminal Operating System (TOS) – which pretty much acts as the “digital heart” of the terminal. CNMP has been using its TOS software for more than 20 years. Due to the fact that its provider was unable to offer a further development of the existing system, CNMP decided to introduce a new type of TOS software and at the same time upgrade the now outdated IT infrastructure of the terminal. By choosing the real-time TOPS Advance system provided by Real-time Business Solutions (RBS) based in Sydney, Australia, alongside local partner RBS EMEA from Hamburg, Germany, the terminal operator managed to find a suitable partner for both parts of the project.</p>

<p style="”text-align:justify”">The introduction of the real-time TOPS Advance system was completed within a time frame of around 14 months. During the project, the old TOS system and the processes were analyzed, the operator’s requirements and expectations collected in workshops, and the system configured accordingly. The next step involved migrating the data and processes to the new system, putting them through their paces in test mode, and training up key users. Furthermore, an interface to the AP+ Port Community System (PCS), the official system of the French port authority, was established. It took just one day to make the switch and launch TOPS Advance as a live system. Didier Michaux, Terminal Manager at CNMP, explains: “During a board meeting that day, those in charge were asking why the go-live date for TOPS had been pushed back. No congestion of any note in the area, no angry calls from angry customers either. I was able to tell them that the go-live was taking place at precisely that moment. Compared with the usual go-lives of TOS systems, this seamless changeover was truly remarkable.” The switch was completed without any performance problems. At the same time, CNMP now has a completely new IT infrastructure as a turnkey solution with a secure data and process environment.</p>

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The terminal ordered two additional Ship-to-Shore (STS) cranes and 10 Rubber Tired Gantry (RTG) from Konecranes. The delivery is expected to happen end of 2019. The RTGs will be ready to be fully electrified for future efficient operations.

In combination with the RBS terminal operating system (TOS) TOPS Advanced implemented at the terminal, this is a powerful and future save combination that will enable the terminal to deliver good services to their customer.

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