Port Planning Systems

Port planning systems that turn activity into shared awareness.

Lightweight systems for port activity booking, approvals, map displays, daily planning boards and operational decision support.

The idea

A port planning system does not have to begin as a large platform. It can begin as a simple way to see who is doing what, where, when, and what that asks of the wider operation.


What this page covers
The problem

The problem

Diving, training, movements, maintenance, restrictions and other activity may be approved in one place but understood somewhere else.

The useful first version

The useful first version

A booking form, approval view, calendar, map overlay and on-the-day display that turns planned activity into a shared picture.

Decision support value

Decision support value

The system helps people see overlap, conflict, access, risk, timing, local constraints and what is being asked of the port on the day.

How to start

How to start

Use known berth positions, buoy positions, operational areas and existing approval steps. Build only enough to test the flow.


Useful questions
  • Who needs to know this activity is happening?
  • What does it conflict with?
  • What changes on the day if the plan moves?
  • Where is approval currently separated from awareness?

A rough problem is enough

You do not need a specification. Start with what keeps causing friction or what you are trying to make clearer.

Send the rough problem