PortXchange Expands EmissionInsider with Emissions Forecasting and Simulations
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Dutch maritime technology company PortXchange, headquartered in Rotterdam, announced an expansion of its EmissionInsider platform incorporating emissions forecasting, scenario modelling, multimodal monitoring and AI-assisted decarbonisation planning. According to the company, the expansion will allow ports to assess how operational changes and major investments could affect emissions before decisions are made, moving beyond a retrospective reporting approach.
Beyond vessel emissions
The expanded platform will no longer focus solely on vessel emissions, also covering trucks, rail movements and cargo-handling equipment, giving ports a combined view of the environmental impact of different transport and terminal activities. According to Hellenic Shipping News, PortXchange is one of the few technology providers pursuing emissions monitoring across multiple transport modes simultaneously.
Four connected products
The expanded offering is organised into four products: Emission Report, for structured reporting tailored to different levels of data availability; Emission Dashboard, for more frequent monitoring of port activity and tracking progress against reduction targets; Emission Simulations, which will allow testing the effects of investments and operational measures -such as shore power, equipment electrification, vessel speed limits or higher traffic volumes- before committing resources; and Emission Strategy, which will add AI-based support to help sustainability teams set priorities according to each port's emissions profile and goals.
The forecasting function
The forecasting capability aims to anticipate short-term emissions changes, given that disruptions from bad weather or changes in vessel schedules can increase berth or anchorage waiting times and, with that, emissions. Sjoerd de Jager, Managing Director and co-founder of PortXchange, stated that ports are under pressure to invest millions in decarbonisation but few can be certain which investments will have the greatest impact, stressing that they can no longer be asked to make costly decisions based on assumptions, but instead need evidence before spending the money.
Connecting sustainability and operations
Eugene Sypachev, the company's Head of Engineering and responsible for the programme's development, noted that in most ports sustainability and operations run as separate conversations, with one team overseeing the annual emissions figure and another focused on daily performance targets, without shared data linking the two areas. The new features will be rolled out gradually, and ports will be able to choose which products to adopt and tailor configurations and data integrations to their own needs and decarbonisation priorities.
