Visy, with the help of partners from the recently acquired Autepra, has installed optical character recognition (OCR) equipment, alongside the TopView system, on 14 ship-to-shore cranes at the Baltic Sea region's largest container terminal.

"The system goes beyond a traditional OCR solution, delivering a complete automation ecosystem with multiple applications that cover the entire load/discharge process - from ship to terminal tractor and yard - while providing razor-sharp recognition accuracy for container IDs, ISO codes, and other attributes," the company from the Finnish Tampere highlighted in a press release.

The deployment also features Visy's newly developed Wharf App. This interface for crane operators includes a view on the ongoing operations (such as active work queues), a tool to browse and review ship's current situation (containers on board, planned loads and discharges), loading instructions to ship (both in text and audio), as well as a view on terminal tractors with containers approaching the crane (the system informs the driver whether the container can be transferred onto the ship or if something else needs to be loaded first).

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