Design of a Semi-Automated Software for Stowage Planning

iStow is a semi-automated software for stowage planning. iStow for Container Ship was cooperating with PT Samudera Shipping Services – Jakarta, which is one of subsidiaries of PT Samudera Indonesia Group, Tbk.

The following features covered by iStow:

• Collaborative planning
• Automatic stability & strength calculation
• Automatic document produce
• Seamless integration
• Multi-OS

The variants of iStow that have been implemented:

• iStow-Container Ship
  • iStow for container stowage planning
• iStow-RoRo Ship
  • iStow for car, truck,other heavy equipment on RoRo/LCT. It was cooperating with PT Pelayaran Banyuwangi Sejati.
• iStow-Cargo Handling Simulator (CHS)
  • Variant of iStow for maritime education and training. There are two versions: (1) iStow-CHS for trainer including designing training scenarios, trainee monitoring and control, assessment; and (2) iStow-CHS for trainee including simultaneous & collaborative planning, automatic stability calculation and automatic document produce. It was cooperating with Semarang Growth Center (SGC).

Other variants are under development:

• iStow-Bulker
• iStow-Tanker