Smart VBS: appointments and slots
Not a booking calendar. A capacity engine.
Every truck arrives with a slot that the gate, the yard and the vessel plan can actually absorb.
In product
What it does
- Booking through the web portal, mobile app, kiosk and API (TMS/ERP).
- Slot capacity rules by gate, lane, job type (import/export, full/empty, reefer, IMO) and cargo type.
- AI quota forecast: sets the number of bookings per slot days ahead from yard occupancy, crane rate, vessel ETA/ETD, shift changes and history.
- Dynamic steering: moves demand from peak hours to free slots and proposes alternatives.
- Estimated truck turnaround time (TTT) per slot, shown to the haulier before booking.
- Combined operations: suggests an import delivery and an export pick-up in one appointment.
- Container readiness forecast from customs and yard status.
- Autopilot: bookings created automatically for hauliers connected by API.
- Pre-registration of truck, driver, licence, RFID card and documents.
- Early, late, no-show and cancellation rules, linked to the reliability score.
- Confirmations, reminders and slot changes by SMS, WhatsApp, e-mail and push.
At a glance
| Group | Plan |
|---|---|
| Status | In product |
| Measured by | Slot utilisation, arrival compliance |
| Works with | AI Pre-Validation, Haulier reliability score, Truck Call-Forward |

Next step
Make your port's flow
measurable.
For a pilot scope we need daily and peak trucks, number of gates, park capacity, transaction types and TOS version.