Terminals throughout the marine and intermodal industries trust Tideworks products to help them efficiently move tens of millions of containers and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cargo each year. Our industry-leading TOS solutions are utilized by some of the largest terminal operations in the world. Our Terminal View and Tideworks Insight products bring the power of data visualization and business intelligence to bear on some of the industry’s most challenging problems.
Simultaneously, Advent eModal has become a leader in software solutions designed to help terminals smoothly handle cargo interchange with drayage carriers. They currently aid in trucks and cargo movement through more than 50 terminals and ports across North America, including eight of the top ten.
A partnership between these two logistics powerhouses was inevitable. Each supplies software and services that complement the other, and when used in conjunction, Tideworks and Advent eModal provide unmatched flexibility and power. Today’s terminals will benefit significantly from their collaboration, charging boldly into an automated future where data drives unprecedented insights and productivity gains.
Advent eModal
Terminals and trucking companies depend on the eModal Community Portal (eCP) for streamlining their operations and assuring effortless transitions at each link in the supply chain. This platform houses many applications, each designed to smooth common friction points that cost operations time and money.
PreGate
PreGate helps streamline gate activity and reduce truck turn times by providing terminal operators and motor carriers a straight-forward, connected gate appointment system. Trucks no longer need to suffer waiting in long queues if they happen to arrive at the terminal during a busy period. A trucking company’s dispatch team can reserve a gate arrival slot during times of lower volume, assisting terminals in their efforts to reduce gate congestion and keep cargo flowing while simultaneously enabling the truck to do more turns in a day.
Terminals can also better plan for upcoming workloads when they know who will be arriving when and their mission. Labor, machinery, yard space, and other resources can be optimized to facilitate speedy transitions between the terminal and motor carriers.
Fee Manager
Another key component to the eModal platform, Fee Manager, allows ports and intermodal terminal operators to collect various fees online. Having the ability to collect fees before trucks arrive further reduces gate congestion and boosts cargo velocity.
The portal is simple to use and allows fee collection to happen on demand. This is particularly useful to terminals that count on demurrage collection to supplement other revenue sources. With eCP, payment collection is painless.
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Cargo Status
eCP provides integrated track and trace functionality from dozens of different locations. The service grants authorized users full cargo visibility with an integrated container watchlist and export booking management. Container status, hold information, fees due, and much more are available at a glance, enabling motor carriers and beneficial cargo owners (BCOs) to instantly know where their cargo is and when it is available for pickup at the terminal.
Drayage Truck Registry
With Advent eModal’s Drayage Truck Registry (DTR) truck registration service, terminal operators immediately know who’s entering their terminal. Trucks can be identified at the gate electronically using onboard RFID tags. Information such as license plate, make/model, age, and environmental status can be accessed by operations to improve terminal security, ensure clean truck compliance, and verify proof of insurance.
Advent eModal’s services supply crucial information to terminal operators to serve their customers better, while Tideworks products help them run their entire operation. As a result, there’s quite a bit of overlap between the customer bases of both companies.
How Our Customers Align
Both Tideworks and Advent eModal count some of the largest terminal and port operations in their client list. Both service the marine and intermodal industries, and both derive the bulk of their paying clientele from this space.
However, terminal operators offer Advent eModal’s products as a service to their motor carrier customers. Trucking companies access the SaaS platform to book appointments, register vehicles, and more. As a result, even though Advent eModal’s customers are the same as Tideworks, their users are vastly different. Advent eModal counts licensed motor carriers as their largest user base.
Trucking company dispatchers can plan their workloads directly in the eCP portal, booking appointments for their fleet to help avoid bottlenecks that waste precious driver time. Dispatchers gain a valuable tool in managing their fleets, and terminals can better serve customers quickly and efficiently.
Why Both Companies Are Better Together
Tideworks is devoted to bringing marine and intermodal terminals solutions that derive the most value possible from available resources. Our products help with yard management, move planning, labor and resource allocation, and tracking a growing number of automated processes.
We help terminals from the inside out. Advent eModal takes the opposite approach, aiding terminals from the outside in. They improve relationships between external carriers and terminals, helping to speed cargo into and out of the terminal complex. They bolster terminal security, which benefits terminal operators and their customers. And they enhance cargo visibility for increased transparency and even greater planning capabilities.
Tideworks delivers world-class TOS solutions. Advent eModal better connects terminals to the greater logistics ecosystem. Together, they provide unmatched service to an expanding, shared customer pool. Terminals that avail themselves of both company’s offerings will be well-positioned to satisfy customer demands and take advantage of future opportunities.