TCP chooses APS solutions

Implementing one of the largest investment programmes in the Brazilian port industry, aimed at expanding capacity and increasing efficiency, TCP will see its annual terminal capacity increase by 50% this year to 1.2m teu. Terminal productivity increased from 30 moves per hour in 2010 to 56 moves per hour last month.

The APS solutions will further help TCP handle larger gate volumes and streamline the current rail discharge process by automating the identification of rail-laden containers and their associated weights into the company’s terminal operating system (TOS).

It replaces the current cumbersome and time-consuming process, whereby trains come in three times a day, with a reachstacker moving containers from the train to a truck. The truck then drives to the main gate for weighing before the container is taken to be stored in the stacks.