Team Nortal won the Konecranes hackathon Maritime Hack - Automated cargo handling event arranged on November 26-27, 2016 in Helsinki, Finland. The winning team presented a solution answering the challenge of improving information flow related to material flow in ports. The solution included a mobile application for truck drivers, with backend data collection.

“The winning solution was very practical - a practical functioning solution for a practical problem,” says Juha Pankakoski, Chief Digital Officer, Konecranes. “The solution has good applicability and can easily be deployed and distributed in actual working environment. It can also be definitely developed further.”

“The idea was quite simple, but we spent a lot of time calculating the business case behind it. We wanted to make sure that the solution actually creates value for Konecranes,” the team Nortal explained.

The winning application is set to optimize cargo pickup. The demo included a calendar view and a function that allows the truck driver to schedule an optimal time for cargo pickup. The application is set to improve efficiency and waiting time as well as cut costs. Reducing waiting times by one per cent can result in significant savings as cargo volumes are high.

Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™, serving a broad range of customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards, ports and terminals. Konecranes provides productivity-enhancing lifting solutions as well as services for lifting equipment and machine tools of all makes. In 2015, Group sales totaled EUR 2,126 million. The Group has 11,100 employees at 600 locations in 48 countries. Konecranes is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).