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Advancing Port Infrastructure

Improve operational excellence by connecting trusted data and people through digital twins

Accelerate construction, operations, and maintenance

Maximize throughput and optimize decision-making in port operations and asset maintenance by connecting the physical and virtual worlds. Enhance collaboration among stakeholders, improve operational insights, and enable predictive and preventative maintenance to enhance asset performance.

Improve project visualization

Visualize all your infrastructure projects in context to monitor progress, make proactive schedule adjustments, and identify overlaps. Improve decision-making and save more time, money, and other resources, all while mitigating disruptions projects have on operations.

Optimize operations and maintenance

Transform asset management with digital twins. Integrate operational and asset data to give every team a unified, contextual view of infrastructure. Enable predictive maintenance, extend asset life, and drive performance improvements through smarter, data-driven decisions.

Maximize safety and efficiency

Leverage a holistic view of your port to improve the safety and efficiency of your operations. Know the location and condition of assets, monitor ship traffic, manage tenant and warehouse information, and provide a single portal for stakeholders to use and make decisions from.

Port Design

Modernize design and collaboration, ensure effective project delivery, and enable informed decision-making. Be more efficient in the design process, creating a more resiliency and sustainability with maximized throughput.

Digital rendering of a large ship passing under a detailed steel arch bridge, with color-coded depth zones and labeled geographic points in the background.

Modeling, design, and analysis

Connect with your team through an open environment that supports modeling, design, and analysis of projects from conceptual design to detailed design. You can simulate design options, evaluate project impact, and reduce risk, project costs, and delays.

Aerial view of a large red cargo ship docked at a pier extending into blue-green water, with barriers around the docked area, highlighting the thoughtful design often seen in modern ports.

Collaborative design

Advance the efficiency of your multidiscipline teams for the design and engineering of infrastructure. Increase adherence to standards through design, maintenance, and retrofit of capital projects.

A large cargo ship, expertly designed for efficiency, carries colorful shipping containers as it moves through calm, dark blue ocean water near major ports, viewed from above.

Digital delivery

Improve your design quality and enable contractors to benefit from a more complete representation of the design. Make it easier to review the design intent with high‐resolution 3D design visuals. Reduce project cost overruns and test what-if scenarios to refine constructability and optimize project cost.

Design solutions and recommended software

Port design and analysis

Fully integrated modeling, analysis, and design applications produce deliverables derived directly from the models. Speed up design time and improve efficiency in a collaborative 3D design environment.

  • 3D design and drafting software: MicroStation
  • Structural analysis and design software: STAAD

Port construction

Utilize scheduling and simulation tools to optimize construction planning and efficiency to build sustainable, resilient ports of the future. Mitigate disruptions to operations by visualizing all your projects at once and understanding where and how they overlap with each other and with day-to-day operations.

Aerial view of a large airport construction site with multiple cranes near a river, surrounded by roads and high-rise buildings.

Enhanced construction scheduling and planning

Resolve construction issues before they cost you time and money in the field. Manage project schedule vs. performance, reduce on-site visits, and monitor and track progress.

A worker is silhouetted against the sky while standing on scaffolding and working on a metal framework structure during construction, with the sun visible in the background.

Improved collaboration for better results

Advance coordination with supply chain and stakeholders to reduce the risk of delays. Improve safety and enable first-time-right construction. Close communication gaps between the field and office with shared access to site reports, issues, and safety observations to speed decisions.

A construction worker wearing a safety harness stands among large, rust-colored steel beams at an construction site under a clear sky.

Holistic project visualization

Know exactly where every project is located and monitor the progress, asset usage, and schedule of them all from a single, trusted portal.

Construction Solutions and Recommended Software

Port construction management

Drive project performance with real-time field progress, cost data, project reports, and insights. Make better and quicker decisions that minimize project errors and maximize team productivity.

  • Construction planning and project management: SYNCHRO
  • Project collaboration and information: ProjectWise

Port operations and maintenance

Maximize throughput and operational efficiency through accurate, living data that is accessible in context and helps your teams make faster and more effective decisions. Equip your teams to know exactly where critical assets, such as cranes and trucks, are located and understand the condition and performance of those assets.

3D model of a large cruise ship docked at a city port, with a multicolored heatmap overlay on the water showing operations activity and tall buildings in the background.

Surface trusted information

Connect your data from all your trusted systems and visualize that data in context with the physical world to have accurate, transparent insights into the entirety of your operations.

3D digital map showing a bridge over water, navigation routes marked in pink, with a ship within a circular boundary on the sea chart near major ports, highlighting maritime operations.

Empower collaboration

Equip your teams and stakeholders to work from a shared portal, empowering collaboration and minimizing communication errors and delays.

A worker in blue coveralls walks along a walkway in front of stacked shipping containers on a cargo ship, overseeing operations at busy ports.

Improve predictive and preventative maintenance

Extend your asset lifespans with living, accurate insights into their status, usage, and maintenance needs, improving the safety and utilization of your equipment and infrastructure.

Operations and maintenance solutions and recommended software

Port operations and maintenance

Connect trusted data in a visually immersive environment to improve decision-making, ensure accessible, accurate data for all stakeholders, and extend the asset lifecycle through proactive maintenance.

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