Import Container Scheduling
Manage Your Business Priorities,
Not Just Your Containers
An ETA at the port is an input, not a plan. Why treat every arrival date as equal? Stop processing containers blindly based on arrival dates and start making decisions that protect your bottom line.
Streamliner transforms your inbound flow from a "First-In, First-Out" guessing game into a strategic operation driven by financial risk and commercial urgency.
The Essential Ocean-to-Dock Execution Layer
While real-time tracking platforms provide "dots on a map," Streamliner acts as the execution layer that turns that data into planning actions. By integrating directly with tracking data, we ingest precise ETA data and synchronize it with the multi-modal routes from port to destination warehouse. This gives your warehouses a view weeks in advance of the planned arrival of the unloading workload.
We go even further, based on the content of the container we estimate the unloading workload allowing the warehouse to staff according or redirect containers to the appropriate warehouse. Carriers and warehouses can prepare in advance for the actual capacity and are automatically informed and in real-time of changes to the schedule. This ensures your docks, labor, and equipment are ready exactly when the container hits the port.
Prioritize What Matters
Predictive Flow Alignment
Most logistics teams lose money because they lack arbitration capability into D&D penalty deadlines. Streamliner uses intelligent arbitration to help you decide which container to pull first by balancing two critical factors:
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D&D financial Risk: The system automatically identifies containers nearing their "End of Free Time" to help you avoid looming Detention & Demurrage (D&D) penalties.
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Commercial Urgency: We align pull-dates with your actual business needs, prioritizing high-priority promotions or critical stock.
Multimodal mode selection
From tracking the lifecycle of a shipment to managing the final empty container return, Streamliner provides total performance control. Select the prefered transport mode between port and warehouse. Map specific inland terminal or rail connections directly to your warehouse zones for a unified, multi-modal view of every container in your network.
Eliminate the visibility gap that causes warehouse congestion and truck queues. Streamliner allows you to anticipate arrivals and match them with your warehouse capacity in real-time. By predicting bottlenecks before they happen, you ensure a synchronized flow that keeps your yard clear, your operations lean and your D&D cost under control.
Detention fees often continue to pile up after a container is emptied. If you work with swaps, a carrier should not just take any empty container from the MSC, Maersk of OOCL but that exact box with the lowest remaining free time. Streamliner solves this by closing the execution loop:
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Instant Triggers: The moment your warehouse team marks a container as "emptied," the system makes it visible automatically to the carrier responsible for the pick-up.
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Asset Tracking: Manage empty trailers in dedicated zones with precise "IN" and "OUT" timestamps.
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Proven Savings: For large operations, this automation contributes to a total reduction in D&D fees of more than 50%.
Start Managing Business Priorities, Not Containers
Global Detention and Demurrage costs represent a multi-billion euro "blind spot" that frequently exceeds €500,000 in annual fees for large-scale import operations. Streamliner eliminates these hidden costs by using Intelligent Arbitration and Predictive Flow Alignment to reduce total D&D penalties by more than 50%.