T IS FOR TERMINALLOGISTICS
Find out why we play Tetris with containers!
We love Tetris. Especially Level 20 — when the blocks fall so fast your brain can barely keep up.
Why do we love playing Teris in the highest level? Because that’s a pretty accurate description of a typical day at a major container terminal.
The challenge: Find the perfect spot for each container
Nearly everything we buy or order online travels the globe in containers before reaching us — coffee, toys, electronics, you name it. At major ports like the Port of Hamburg, these containers are transferred to trains or trucks. In Hamburg alone, up to 24,000 containers are handled every single day. Globally, around 700 million containers move through ports each year.
Turnaround times are tight. Once a ship is unloaded, containers are stacked across the terminal. The challenge? Finding the perfect spot so each container can stay put until it departs. Every unnecessary move costs time, space, and energy. It’s a daily, high-speed puzzle with thousands of moving pieces.
That’s where our AI-based systems come in — helping make the right decision for every single container.
- Predictive stacking AI selects the optimal storage location so a container doesn’t have to be moved again before its onward journey.
- Precision in seconds Within milliseconds, our systems simulate thousands of train-loading scenarios to maximize capacity and ensure on-time departures.
- Dynamic response If a ship is delayed or a truck gets stuck in traffic, the AI reroutes cranes and transport vehicles in real time — like a nervous system reacting instantly to external stimuli.
In real-world operations, we achieve efficiency gains of 20% to 50%. And this isn’t just about cost savings. By reducing unnecessary movements and empty runs, we significantly cut energy consumption and a terminal’s carbon footprint.
Your online orders arrive on time largely thanks to this invisible work. Behind the scenes, we’re the champions of invisible processes, keeping global supply chains running day after day. Put simply: we’re really good at Tetris — and that’s why everyday life stays on track.
Where manual planning reaches its limits, this kind of decision intelligence makes the difference.
Für us T is more than Terminallogistics. Our approach to equipping software with AI makes it interesting for many applications in numerous industries. Some even start with a T.
T IS ALSO FOR
Telecommunications
Telecommunications is about more than just connectivity; it's also about security. We help providers detect fraud in real time.
T IS ALSO FOR
Transport Management
We optimize routes and capacity utilization in real time, whether they're internal logistics or on the road.
T IS ALSO FOR
Time Slot Management
Time slots are how large plants handle complex material deliveries. We take it a step further by transforming rigid schedules into a dynamic control process.
T IS ALSO FOR TRANSPARENCY
For us, this means decisions made by AI systems are traceable. This is especially important for business decisions. Only those who understand how a result is achieved can take responsibility for it, question it, and implement it with confidence.
In complex processes, merely providing a result is insufficient. It's important to understand why a particular recommendation is made. Our solutions reveal the underlying relationships, from the data used to the trade-offs in the model, to help you understand why a particular recommendation is made.
This builds trust: Users can review, contextualize, and adjust results as needed. Thus, AI does not become an opaque system, but rather a transparent tool that prepares and supports decisions.
At INFORM, transparency is not an add-on feature but rather a prerequisite for the responsible use of AI in day-to-day operations.
