Martinique
Fort-de-France port and Lamentin airport
Customer: Port +
Solutions
- Port community system AP+ in June 2007 and PCS AirPort+ air module in 2011
Fort-de-France port
- 2 terminals: Pointes des Grives and hydrocarbons
- Type of traffic: containers, conventional, bulk and transshipment
- PCS users: shipping agents, freight forwarders, consolidators/unbundlers, handlers, road hauliers, port authorities, customs.
Customer needs
- Track all goods traffic in the port
- Create a flow history
- Reduce port transit time
AP+ and Airport+ solutions
Why choose AP+ and Airport+?
Challenges
- Uniting all stakeholders involved in the project
- Advising on the creation of the company in charge of marketing and monitoring AP+ in Martinique: Port+.
- Deploying AP+ within 6 months of signing, implemented on 1 June 2007
- Accompanying the client through the change: training and telephone support, transfer of skills to Port+ employees
- Developing specific functions for the maritime sector
- Creating an AirPort+ air module in 2011
- Reduce goods transit time
Benefits
- Reduced goods transit time
- Traceability of sea and air traffic
- Financial gains: reduction in administrative processing costs
- Speed: anticipation of transaction processing
- Information quality and reliability: computerised transmission of documentation
- Standardisation of processes: use of a shared system
- Compatibility with global customs regulations
