Berth scheduling & route planning
Tidewell Labs builds scheduling software for small and mid-size ports and short-sea operators. Your harbour office gets a plan that respects draft, tide windows and pilot rosters, and repairs itself when a ship runs late.
01 — Product
Big terminals have planning departments. Small ports have a harbour office, a tide table and a phone that never stops. We build for the second kind.
Turn a list of port calls into a berth plan that fits vessel length, draft, cargo gear and the tide, then keep it right as the day changes.
Plan coastal legs between small ports around depth, tide gates and weather windows, and send an arrival time the destination port can actually plan with.
02 — How it works
Most ports are running on Tidewell Berth within a fortnight. No new hardware, and nothing to install on the quay.
Bring in your port-call list, vessel particulars and tide predictions. We read AIS positions and the spreadsheets you already keep.
Tell Tidewell Berth what your harbour master already knows: berth lengths, charted depths, clearance rules, pilot shifts and who may never berth next to whom.
Share one plan with agents, pilots and terminal staff. When an ETA changes, Tidewell Berth repairs the plan and tells only the people it affects.
03 — Features
Berth plans are built on your own tide predictions and under-keel clearance rules, so a deep-draft call is only ever offered a slot it can actually reach.
When an ETA slips, Tidewell Berth repairs the plan around it and moves as few other calls as it can. Your agents see the change, not a reshuffle.
Marine services are scheduled as real resources with shifts and rest rules, not as a note in the margin of the berth plan.
High-contrast screens designed for a tablet on the quayside, in daylight and in weather. Plans stay readable when the connection drops.
CSV, iCal and printable PDF for every plan. If you leave, your port calls and history leave with you.
Tidewell Route plans legs between small ports around draft limits, tide gates and weather windows, and hands the ETA straight to the berth plan.
We used to plan the week on a whiteboard and redo it every time the Arnholt Trader ran late. Now the plan is fixed before the pilot boat has left the pontoon.
04 — Talk to us
Send us a week of real calls and your tide table. We will show you the plan Tidewell Berth would have made, and where it would have saved you a phone call.
Talk to usor write to hello@tidewell-lab.xyz