Realisation of the Neste (count) Terminal Automation system

Europe’s largest port and industrial complex is located in Rotterdam. For the techies among us, this is a Valhalla of terminals, containers, power plants and transhipment companies. One such company is COUNT Terminal Rotterdam: a multi-service company active in storing and blending major sustainable energy sources. Together with COUNT Terminal Rotterdam, we started a new project: the Neste (COUNT) Terminal Automation system.  

COUNT wanted to expand their logistics activities. In practice, this means performing more work. As you know: people are quite prone to making mistakes in their work. To support COUNT’s employees and avoid as many errors as possible, we jointly developed an automated system: COUNT Terminal Automation.

This automated system provides a solid base for further expansion of the logistics activities.
The system also provides support for recording and reporting truckloads (weigh-in and weigh-out), internal tank transports and shipments. These items of data are now automatically registered in a central database where various checks are performed. In addition, the system is designed to allow smooth and error-free linking with external systems.

In April 2019, we completed the first phase of the COUNT Terminal Automation project. It was a great success! This development process was entirely about good, intensive collaboration. We combined the logistical knowledge of the team at COUNT with our knowledge of IT engineering and industrial automation. Specifically in relation to: Terminal Management systems. This combination turned out to be worth its weight in gold!

And there it is: the new COUNT Terminal Automation system. It can be controlled from different workstations via standard browsers. The advantage of this automated system is that operations at the terminal can be expanded in Vlaardingen (and internationally) in the future, without increasing the workload of the team at COUNT.