Schedule decision support for Port Hedland shippers
Better options. Better asks.
The schedule changes for 8 of 10 sailings. PortPilot turns each change into a decision or opportunity you can act on.
- 580 Mt a year
- Loading >1,000 t/min
- Schedules change 8 of 10 times
- Built in Port Hedland
Source: Pilbara Ports annual results.
The map.
Every vessel, berth and schedule for Port Hedland in one view. Open it in a browser, nothing to install.
Three commitments decide everything.
Berth window
When the berth is yours.
Sailing tide
When you can sail, and how deep.
Cargo readiness
Whether the tonnes are ready in time.
When one moves, the others move. PortPilot shows you how far, and how soon.
The moment that matters.
Every schedule change opens a short list of options, each with its own clock.
- Sail as planned
- Finish loading, take the next tide
- A later slot on the same tide
- An earlier sailing
- A swap
Each option has a deadline.
The Pilbara Ports Vessel Movement Protocols set how far ahead each kind of change has to be asked for. Miss the clock and the option lapses, whatever it was worth.
- 24
- 12
- 9
- 6
- 4
hours
The same answers, in one place.
The old way
Four or five places to look
- The published schedule, compared against the last version by hand
- Tide tables, read against each vessel's draught
- A traffic site for where the vessels actually are
- The protocols, for how much notice each change needs
- Calls to confirm what has already moved.
With PortPilot
One view, with the clocks running
- Every schedule version, and what changed between them
- Tide windows already matched to the vessel's draught
- Vessels, berths and anchorage in the same picture
- Each option's deadline, counting down
- One view the whole desk reads together
What PortPilot does.
Watches the port
Every vessel, berth, tide and schedule version.
Identifies the options
What the port's rules permit for your vessel right now.
Tracks each window
How much notice each option still needs.
Quantifies the trade-off
What each option is worth against the others.
Who it’s for.
Shipping and logistics teams
Know your options before the phone rings.
Operations planners
See how a schedule change lands on cargo readiness.
Commercial teams
Understand what each tide is worth before you ask for it.
The product summary.
Four pages on what PortPilot shows, how the clocks work, and who uses it.
Start open, scale to enterprise.
Open to everyone
Free
Open
The map for anyone at the port. No account, no install.
- Live view of the port and every vessel
- One map per port, any device
- Limited history
For shipping desks
Professional
$POA / team
The full decision layer for teams that own the tonnes.
- Full schedule and vessel history
- Change alerts with options and clocks
- Tide and draught decision aids
- Vessel tracking for your fleet
For integrated operations
Enterprise
$POA
Professional, integrated with the systems you already run.
- Everything in Professional
- Custom integrations to planning systems
- Multi-team rollout and agreed support
Get in touch.
Tell us which vessels and berths you work, and we will set PortPilot up against them.