Bordeaux
Bordeaux Informatique Portuaire
Customer: BIP+. (Bordeaux Informatique Portuaire), UMPB
Solution
- The Port Community System (PCS) AP+ in January 2008
Customer needs
- Become a reference port that has set up a one-stop shop thanks to the association of its Port Community System Poseidon and the Port Community System AP+
- Use a customised scalable system
- Find a development partner that will contribute to the competitiveness of the port
Port
- 6 port sectors with 2 container terminals: Bordeaux, Bassens, Ambès, Blaye, Pauillac and Le Verdon extended along the estuary (100 km)
- Types of traffic: containers, conventional and bulk
- PCS users: shipping agents, freight forwarders, handlers, road hauliers, port authorities, customs, gendarmerie
Our challenges and solutions
Why do the largest logistics companies choose our Port Community Systems?
Challenges
- Uniting all stakeholders in the project
- Creating an entity in charge of marketing and monitoring AP+ in Bordeaux: BIP+
- Accompanying drivers of change, training, and transfer of skills to BIP+ employees
- Integration of the shipping and container port tax module, and the bulk management module
Benefits
- Time savings: reduction of port transit time from 4/5 days to 2/3 days
- Real-time information exchange for all terminals
- Rigour and fluidity of exchanges
- Productivity gains: dematerialisation of declaration formalities, simplification of customs procedures, acquisition of new working and organisational methods
- Responsiveness: integration of new regulations
