Yilport Gets 21% More From Cranes It Already Owns

Yilport says rubber-tyred gantry crane productivity at its Gebze terminal in Turkey has risen by 21% after it deployed Kaleris' RTG Optimization software.

The detail that makes this worth running is how it was measured: moves per hour, over the first three months of operation, across the terminal's 31-crane fleet. That is a named customer, a named metric, a stated period and a stated fleet size, which is more than most optimisation announcements give you.

The software looks at vessel, truck and yard demand all the time and recommends where each crane should work, to balance the load, cut idle time and reduce empty travel across the yard. The dispatchers keep control of crane assignments. The system recommends, a person decides. It sits on top of the Kaleris N4 terminal operating system Yilport already uses, and it can handle mixed fleets, including remotely operated cranes.

The best signal is what Yilport does next. It plans to take the software to Liscont and Leixões in Portugal and Gävle in Sweden, where the installations will include remotely controlled automated cranes. A customer rolling a product out to three more sites is a stronger signal than any single percentage.

Our caveats. The 21% is reported by the two companies, not by an outside auditor, and the baseline is not published. We do not know whether volumes or the vessel mix changed over the same three months. We ran Kaleris two weeks ago for an acquisition. We run it again because this time it is a customer result, not a deal.

Why it matters to ship managers. Crane productivity at the terminal is your time alongside. Every move per hour gained at the quay is berth time you do not pay for. It is also a clean example of the pattern we keep seeing where AI works: more out of the equipment you already have, with a human still making the call. [Splash247 · AiatSea, 6 September]

This story is part of the Maritime AI Digest of 20 September 2026.

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