Klaipedos Smelte has successfully migrated from TOPS Advanced to TOPS EXPERT, setting new standards for efficiency and flexibility.
In early November, Klaipėdos Smeltė Container Terminal (CT) successfully upgraded its Terminal Operating System (TOS) from TOPS Advance to TOPS Expert.
The migration was carried out with the on-site support of consultants from Realtime Business Solutions Pty. Ltd. (RBS) and RBS EMEA. The transition was completed within just four hours, with no negative impact on terminal performance, customers, or stakeholders.
The new TOS version offers advanced capabilities for vessel operations, yard management, equipment control, and data analytics. Notably, it reportedly enhances automation and accelerates planning processes, enabling terminal planners to respond more effectively to dynamic situations while offering greater flexibility to customers such as MSC.
In particular, the new TOPS version provides more automated features that speed up processes, thereby allowing planning to adapt quickly to new situations. The successful migration marks the final step of a comprehensive project that took the team just under eight months from the initial kickoff to the go-live stage.
This migration does not mark the end of the process but rather the beginning of new opportunities and possibilities to integrate additional modules and features in the future.
The latest version of TOPS Expert can seamlessly integrate with RBS’s new TOPX Intelligent Engine, which will further enhance the terminal’s efficiency in scheduling, dispatch, and execution.
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“The Klaipėda Smeltė terminal is a long-term customer, and we are happy to migrate with them to a new TOPS version through such a smooth process. It has been a great team effort. Thank you to all,” commented Norbert Klettner, Managing Director of the RBS EMEA Office.
RBS announced the TOS upgrade to the Klaipedos Smelte container terminal in April 2024.
