PROGRESS Software Corporation announced today that maritime information and service provider Royal Dirkzwager has chosen Progress Software solutions to automate the monitoring and analysis of real-time shipping information that tracks the arrival of cargo ships to ports around the world.
Royal Dirkzwager has been using Progress Sonic ESB to integrate systems with the Rotterdam Port Authority in order to automate the collection and distribution of electronic information from multiple tracking systems.
The Progress Apama Complex Event Processing platform will monitor the information feeds from the Sonic ESB seamlessly in real-time and detect spatial and time-based event patterns of importance to customers.
This deployment also helps future-proof the company so that it has the ability to scale and take on the increasing amount of shipping data, supporting any future expansion plans in line with the growth of the business.
Additional enhancements include optimized route planning for vessels.
This would mean that the real-time information will enable customers to make decisions to increase or decrease a vessel's speed or change course based on tidal and weather information, to avoid inclement weather and unsafe routes, or to use fuel economically.
The company estimates an increase in volumes from 200 location messages per second to thousands of messages per second as well in increased number of business events, as shipping traffic, cargo and passenger numbers.