CMC's Marine Container Handling system (MACH) is a comprehensive, proven container and cargo management system, integrating all the varied and complex activities of the container terminal and container freight station (CFS). MACH streamlines and accelerates the operation of these facilities, resulting in:

 

	Faster vessel turn around times
	Optimal utilisation of yard, quay, equipment and personnel
	Effective resource planning
	Improved availability of information
	Streamlined procedures
	Optimisation of operations
	Effective communication, co-ordination & control

MACH is based on information technology architecture that enables terminals to implement state-of-the-art solutions in an incremental manner, with minimum disturbance to other connected systems. For maximising the efficiency of the container terminal, MACH implements functionalities that fully take into account the complexities of gate, vessel, yard and rail operations, as well as the container planning exercises.

Unique Benefits:

	Faster operations: Reduced vessel, container and cargo turnaround time
	Better operational control and inventory management through streamlined operations
	Optimal utilisation of space, equipment and personnel and faster return on investment (RoI)
	Trend analysis and decision support system through EIS
	Highly secure system
	Flexi-invoicing with multi-currency support
	Automatic invoicing, facilitating faster revenue generation
	Improved customer service – minimising lead times
	Rich and user friendly graphical interface
	Extensive report capabilities

MACH Modules:
MACH.Marine module records various marine service related aspects in the overall cycle of port operations like vessel voyage registration details, vessel berthing details, vessel movement details and vessel service details.

MACH.CTA (Container Terminal Administration) module covers various documentation aspects, recording information at all levels throughout the life cycle of a container. It provides comprehensive query facilities on overall terminal activities and extensive reporting functions for management. In addition, it provides an interface to all the other modules.

MACH.Ship Planning module facilitates planning the load and discharge operations of a vessel, helps generation of an optimal ship and crane working plan as well as load sequencing, by displaying logical consequences of alternate actions that could be made by the planner. The system provides extensive report and query facility.

MACH.Berth Planning module provides allocating an appropriate berth to a voyage for optimising quay occupancy, quay crane utilisation and vessel turnaround time etc. The planner can schedule the berths in advance to the vessel arrival.

MACH.Yard Planning: This GUI based module helps the container terminal optimise the use of yard space and equipment utilisation. This module interfaces with MACH.OPS for streamlined, real time operations.

MACH.Rail Planning module provides facility for planning of discharge and load operations of a train at the container terminal. It tracks incoming wagons and containers, and generates the rail load and discharge sequence.

MACH.EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) module is powered by in-house developed EDI Engine, SWIM (Software for Intelligent Messaging). This module takes care of the electronic data transfer (in terms of messages) between MACH and the external trading partners like shipping agents, clearing and forwarding houses, customs etc ensuring accuracy with little or no manual intervention.

MACH.ORM (Operations Resource Management) module helps the planner to efficiently plan the personnel in different shifts of the day and deployment of available personnel to different yard, gate and vessel side activities.

MACH.OCM (Operations Control Monitoring) module enables the Operation Controller to ensure optimum utilisation of equipment and personnel while taking into consideration their availability.

MACH.Ops (Operations) is the real-time operations module for regular updation of container and equipment locations in the system, allowing continuous tracking of progress of operations using Vehicle Mounted Terminals (VMT) and Hand Held Terminals (HHT), etc.

MACH.CFS (Container Freight Station) module manages all the activities of cargo in the warehouse for incoming and outgoing cargo such as documentation, delivery, inventory management

MACH.Invoice module handles automatic invoice generation in real-time or at periodic intervals, based on operational data covering the vessel, container, gate and CFS operations.

MACH.EIS (Executive Information System) summarises information from all areas of the port in the form of graphs and charts for top management to make effective decisions.

MACH.INF (Interfaces) : Device Interface component deals with interfacing requirements in the various devices operational within a terminal.

MACH.Admin (Administration) module provides a set of functions, which aid in the administration and maintenance of the MACH application; defines application users for the system and manages them; tracking users and machines etc.

MACH. ARC (Archival) module identifies and archives all data without any value addition to a secondary DB/ storage source increasing effective performance by checking accumulation of production data over longer periods.

MACH:DC (Data Conversion) converts active terminal data while migrating into MACH application.

MACH Technology, Technical Architecture
MACH planning modules are designed and developed using Java and J2EE technologies with extensive use of open source frameworks/products and industry best practices (UML – Unified Modeling Language and design patterns)

MACH documentation modules and operational reports are designed and developed using Oracle Forms and Reports with rich GUI. Forms and Reports are deployed in 3-tier architecture with Oracle Application Server as middle tier.

Hardware and Software Technologies

Operating systems	Solaris, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Windows 2003 / XP
Hardware Systems	IBM , HP, Sun SPARC, Dell
RDBMS	Database Oracle 10g – Release 2- 64 bit
Middle Tier	Oracle Application Server, Forms and Reports JBOSS Application Server, .NET Framework
Front End	Forms and Reports Web Interface, Java Swing, Microsoft .net technologies for mobile / RDT devices
Business Intelligence	Cognos
Radio Data Terminals	Teklogix, LXE

Experience
CMC has extensive experience in implementing state-of-the-art container terminal management systems for several large international terminals:

	Simatech -Bandhar Abbas Arya Container Terminal, Iran
	Forth Ports PLC, UK
	Penang Port Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
	Puerto Lirquen, Chile
	Chennai International Terminal Pvt Ltd, (PSA, India)

Major MACH Projects

Client	Description of the project	Type	Environment
Simatech -Bandhar Abbas Arya Container Terminal, Iran	Implementation of MACH with following modules: Yard Planning Ship Planning Berth Planning Container Administration Container Freight Station (warehouse management system Operations Control Monitoring Rdt Operations Invoicing Electronic Data Interchange Executive Information System Application Administration	2009 Ongoing	Application on Windows recommended Oracle RDBMS on Unix/Linux Recommended
Chennai International Terminal Pvt Ltd (PSA Terminal), India	Implementation of MACH with following modules: Yard Planning Ship Planning Berth Planning Container Administration Gate Operations Rail Operations Voyage Registration Invoicing Electronic Data Interchange Executive Information System Application Administration	2008 Warranty Completed.	Application on Windows Oracle RDBMS on Unix
Forth Ports PLC, UK	Implementation of the integrated version of MACH and CALM, comprising marine operations, ship, yard and berth planning, container & cargo documentation and operations, resource management (equipment and labour), CFS, EDI, EIS and invoicing. Interfaces with Forth Ports' financial accounting software and Radar System - Norcontrol	2003 Under AMC	Application on Windows Oracle RDBMS on a Sun machine
Penang Port Sdn. Bhd, Malaysia	Implementation of MACH with following modules: Ship, Berth, Yard and Rail and Planning; Marine and container documentation and administration; Operations and RDT; Operations Control and resource management; CFS; Invoicing; EDI and Administration	2006 Under AMC	Application on Windows Oracle RDBMS on a Sun machine
Puerto Lirquen, Chile	Implementation of MACH with following modules : Ship and yard planning, container and marine documentation and administration, Electronic Data Interchange sub-system, Operations Control & Monitoring sub-system, Administration sub-system, EIS and invoice	2005 Under AMC	Application on Windows Oracle RDBMS on Windows
Chennai International Terminal Pvt Ltd (PSA Terminal), India	Ship , Yard and Berth Planning, Container Documentation & Admin, Gate Operations, Invoice, System Administration, Rail Operations, EDI, Voyage Registration, EIS, and RDT	2008 Ongoing	Application on Windows recommended Oracle RDBMS on UNIX Recommended

Contact
Head - Shipping
CMC Limited,
CMC Centre
Old Mumbai Highway Road
Gachibowli
Hyderabad - 500 032
Tel: 91-40 - 6657 8000
Fax: 91-40 - 23000167 / 509
Email: shipping@cmcltd.com