31 terminals plan their quay in Quayside. Eight of them, and one in detail.
The list below is every terminal that has agreed to be named. Throughput is the terminal’s own figure for 2025, not ours; the modules column is what they actually run today, which in most cases is not everything.
Named terminals
Eight of thirty-one. The rest are under agreements that do not allow it.
| Terminal | UN/LOCODE | Throughput 2025 | Modules | Live since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal NoordkadeRotterdam, NL | NLRTM | 1.42 M TEU | All five | Apr 2025 |
| Felixstowe SouthFelixstowe, UK | GBFXT | 0.98 M TEU | Planner, Timeline, Exchange | Sep 2023 |
| Tanjung Pelepas Berth 7–12Johor, MY | MYTPP | 2.10 M TEU | Planner, Timeline, Documents, Reporting | Feb 2024 |
| Valencia Levante TerminalValencia, ES | ESVLC | 0.74 M TEU | Planner, Exchange | Nov 2024 |
| Santos Tecon 3Santos, BR | BRSSZ | 0.61 M TEU | Planner, Timeline, Documents | Jun 2024 |
| Mombasa Container Terminal 2Mombasa, KE | KEMBA | 0.44 M TEU | All five | Jan 2025 |
| Port of Gdańsk DCTGdańsk, PL | PLGDN | 1.86 M TEU | Planner, Timeline, Exchange, Reporting | Mar 2022 |
| Antwerp DeurganckAntwerp, BE | BEANR | 1.31 M TEU | All five | Aug 2021 |
Terminal Noordkade
Rotterdam · four berths on Quay 2 · live since 14 April 2025.
Noordkade runs four berths on 1,340 metres of quay with twelve ship-to-shore cranes and a Maasgeul draught restriction that closes on every low water. Before Quayside the plan lived in a spreadsheet that only Jorien, the day planner, could safely edit, and a whiteboard that was photographed at shift change and sent round on WhatsApp.
Berth utilisation, monthly, September 2024 to August 2026. The dashed line is the pre-Quayside mean.
| Measure | Before | Now | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berth utilisation, Quay 2 | 71% | 84% | +13 pt |
| Idle hours per call | 3.2 h | 1.4 h | −1.8 h |
| Conflicts found on the day of the call | 22 / mo | 1 / mo | −95% |
| Time from ETA change to agents informed | 2–6 h | 42 s | −99% |
| Deep calls held for a tide window | 9 / yr | 1 / yr | −8 |
| Crane moves per working hour | 28.4 | 31.6 | +11% |
| Planner hours a week on the plan itself | 31 h | 12 h | −19 h |
“The number nobody predicted is the last one. We did not buy this to save planner hours, we bought it to stop the Thursday arguments. But Jorien now spends her week on the next fortnight instead of the next four hours, and that is where the thirteen points of utilisation came from.”
How it went in
Two weeks, remote. Week one: berth model, crane pool, the Hoek van Holland tide feed and the Portbase connection. Week two: parallel running against the spreadsheet, with the plan published to agents from the Wednesday. The whiteboard came down on 2 May 2025 and was not put back.
What did not work at first
Our first crane model assumed cranes could move between berths freely. Noordkade’s rails stop at berth 3, so a crane on berth 4 cannot help berth 1. We shipped rail segments in v3.4 and the crane warnings became trustworthy about a fortnight in. Until then, planners overrode them, which is the correct response to a tool that cries wolf.
In their words
Two more, from terminals with very different problems.
“The tide check alone paid for it. One deep call held for a window is a day of quay time. We have not held one since March 2024.”
“We are six hours ahead of our line’s European planners and we used to lose a whole shift waiting for an answer on a berth swap. Now they open the board and see the swap already checked. The conversation is about whether, not about what.”