Container slot booking now binding
Eurogate Container Terminal Bremerhaven (CTB) has introduced mandatory pre-booking and slot booking for truck handling at the CTB and MSC Gate terminals, which become effective today, 2 May 2023.
The new system is based on the IT platform "Truckgate" operated by Dakosy and will shorten handling times for truckers. “Truckgate” has been mandatory for container handling at the port of Hamburg since 2017.
The binding slot booking was preceded by an eight-week open pilot phase. During this period, truckers were able to pre-register their container pickups and deliveries on a voluntary basis and book time slots for handling.
At the end of the pilot phase, about one-third of the nearly 1,000 trucks handled daily were already pre-planned via “Truckgate”. Marc Dieterich, managing director of Eurogate CTB, said that with the “connection to 'Truckgate', there is now an end-to-end registration process for truckers in the seaports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven.” (lh)