Ship&Offshore | Issue 10/2025
Rethinking stowage planning
Ship operation Logistics Stowage planning is a challenge that is often underestimated despite the fact that it offers the potential for major savings. Many operators still rely on incomplete data, manual measurement, and step-by-step trial-and-error at the ramp or terminal. The SySta project (system for stowage planning of sea and air freight loading units) developed by Fraunhofer CML and Fraunhofer IML tackles the fundamental issue: it combines contactless, process-near measurement of the actual package geometry with an optimisation procedure aligned with real-world constraints....