AUSTRALIAN container transport provider, ACFS Port Logistics and logistics software company WiseTech Global have launched a strategic partnership to streamline container transport processes.
The two companies will partner to roll out and commercialise Container Transport Optimisation (CTO) across Australia, which digitises and streamlines container transport processes for optimisation and efficiency across operations
ACFS is the largest container logistics operator in Australia with clients including Ikea, Coles Group, Woolworths Group and Costco. Under the partnership with WiseTech, ACFS will implement CTO to optimise container movements across its operations and infrastructure, including drivers, trucks, trailers, loading gates, terminals and empty container parks.
CTO applies algorithms against huge data sets to enable transport companies like ACFS and their customers, importers and exporters, logistics providers, forwarders, and customs brokers to maximise container transport efficiency, increasing equipment utilisation, reducing costs and environmental impact.
WiseTech CEO Zubin Appoo said the CTO addresses one of the industry’s most persistent inefficiencies, the under-utilisation and sub-optimal scheduling of movements from and to the container terminal and transport equipment that supports container movements.
“Deeply optimising this process at scale across the entire port community means higher equipment utilisation, lower wear and tear on roads and equipment, improved reliability and predictability, lower costs to the supply chain participants and less carbon emissions overall,” Mr Appoo said.
“Because CTO is able to leverage customers on the CargoWise and INTTRA platforms, it allows a wider range of supply chain participants to collaborate on these optimisations in real time.
“Partnering with ACFS allows us to showcase CTO’s impact at scale with one of Australia’s most significant operators.
“This rollout represents not just a technology implementation, but a shared vision of a more efficient, reliable and traceable landside logistics process as well as reducing significant environmental impacts, particularly on CO2 emissions,” he said.
ACFS will partner with WiseTech to implement and commercialise the CTO platform to digitise key processes in container transport, including booking, dispatch, runsheet management, digital tracking and validation, and clearance workflows.
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, ACFS Port Logistics, Arthur Tzaneros said that by partnering with WiseTech, they expect to increase the value to customers and drive substantial additional customer business and increase container volume through existing assets.
“Using CTO, we will be able to better coordinate our container movements, increase equipment utilisation, and improve reliability and predictability to our customers,” he said.
WiseTech plans to expand CTO across Australia and then into international markets, signing more partnerships in the US and other high-volume container markets.