Rethinking ETA. From reactive to proactive voyage planning
Annemarie (‘Rie’) Bjerregaard Dahl, Climate & Process Development / Senior Ops. Manager at Lauritzen Bulkers A/S, is driven by a desire to challenge conventional wisdom.
For years, operators have worked on the assumption that ETA is beyond their control. Too many variables, too much uncertainty.
Rie wasn’t convinced. “That’s the dogma we wanted to challenge,” she told us. “We knew there had to be a better way.”
Together with Weathernews and Marcura, and with the support of senior leadership within Lauritzen, Rie helped form a partnership to change that.
Weathernews brought advanced weather routing and vessel performance analytics; Marcura brought the port-side intelligence, using verified timestamps and enriched data from PortLog to support accurate laytime calculation and better port-call planning.
Lauritzen took the lead on testing, manually at first, proving, voyage by voyage, that better planning translates directly to better P&L.
Now live in BETA as of June 14, operators across Lauritzen are now beginning to explore the PortLog OTA (Optimal Time of Arrival) solution before a broader rollout planned after the summer.
We sat down with Rie at Marcura’s recent Leading with Confidence event in Copenhagen to hear how the project came together, and what it means for the future of voyage planning.
Read her story below
