Good news about our ports / Since January, the Port of Rotterdam has started to use integrated planning to manage inland containers shipping. This integrated management is possible thanks to a tool called Nextlogic to which barge operators forward port call, rotation and cargo information in advance for each inland vessel. Terminals do the same for the available quay capacity. Nextlogic then synthetizes all the information and creates an optimal schedule for all the parties. Such a system does not yet exist anywhere else. (....)