Manage Ship and Barge Line-ups

Security Note: You need the Allow the user to view the Ship and Barge Lineup Explorer security right in the Menu user group security rights group for this activity. This activity including steps that impact route point times and berthing, which if performed on the Shipment or Service Trip, would require security rights.

Activity Steps

  1. Open the Ship And Barge Line-up Explorer.
  2. View line-ups for a date range at a port location. See View Ship and Barge Line-ups.

    Note: If any shipments display in the Unassigned Shipments tab, they do not yet have an assigned berth, but they are due to berth in the specified date period. If any shipment has actual dates but not an actual berth, the line-up calculation cannot be performed.

  3. To automatically resolve berth conflicts and calculate the time required at the berths, click Calculate.

    MineMarket calculates the most efficient allocation of berths and the time required for arrival, berthing, loading, documentation, unberthing and departure of shipments, based on the berth settings.

    The shipment ATA, or the ETA if the ATA is not available, is used to determine when the berth is required. The line-up calculation delays the Start Loading - Actual time of a shipment if a berth is unavailable during the required period.

    If there are any berth conflicts, then for each conflict, if any other berth is available for the required date period, one of the conflicting shipments is reassigned to the vacant berth. The new line-up for the date range displays.

    Important: Performing a line-up calculation changes the planned times and berth displayed on the Route Plan tab on the Shipment. Line-up calculations do not affect the service trips.

  4. To manually unassign a shipment from a berth, right-click the shipment and select Unassign Berth from the menu.

    The shipment moves to the Unassigned Shipments tab.

  5. To prevent later line-up calculations changing the berth for a shipment, right-click the shipment and select Lock Berth To» [Berth] from the menu.
  6. To keep a berth allocation, but allow later line-up calculations to change the berth, right-click the shipment in the line-up and select Unlock Berth from the menu.
  7. To prevent later line-up calculations changing the planned dates for a shipment, right-click the shipment in the line-up and select Lock Dates from the menu.
  8. Click Save.