Berthing, drift monitoring and vessel traffic awareness for marine terminals

Fewer berthing incidents.
One live picture.
A defensible record of every operation.

Navitrak gives oil, gas and LNG terminals live berthing aid, moored-vessel drift monitoring and port traffic in one browser-based platform.

  • An operation report ready before the pilot leaves the jetty
  • See the operation live — one view for bridge, tug, jetty and control room
  • Detect unsafe movement — approach speed, angle and drift against the safe limits set for each berth
Why terminals run Navitrak

Safer berthings. Shared live view. Records that stand up.

Safer berthings

Every approach is measured against the safe envelope, and drift or over-speed is flagged before it becomes contact.

Fewer, better-documented incidents

Force and energy on each fender are computed every second, and logged the moment a rated limit is approached.

Records that stand up

An operation report is ready before the pilot leaves the jetty — for insurers, class societies and regulators.

See a real report

Built around terminal infrastructure

Navitrak integrates selected berthing sensors, AIS, cameras, weather stations and fender data, including existing site equipment where compatibility is confirmed during engineering review.

What Navitrak monitors

One operational picture, not five separate screens.

Berthing distance, speed and angle
3D lidar, updated every second
Moored-vessel drift
checked against a configurable envelope
Port and approach traffic
AIS-derived positions in the area
Camera views
time-aligned with the sensor record
Weather at the berth
wind, tide and sea state
Fender utilisation
force, energy and % of rated capacity
During the operation

What the operator sees, live.

A recorded approach, as it appeared on screen — the same view on the bridge tablet, the tug phone and the control-room wall.

  1. 01
    Bow distance
    Distance from the bow to the berthing line, live.
  2. 02
    Stern distance
    Distance from the stern to the berthing line, live.
  3. 03
    Approach speed
    Closing speed, checked against the configured limit.
  4. 04
    Berth angle
    Approach angle relative to the berth face.
  5. 05
    Warning / danger thresholds
    Configurable limits shown against the live reading.
  6. 06
    Weather at approach
    Wind and sea state alongside the approach data.
While alongside

The vessel doesn't stop moving once it's berthed.

During loading and unloading, Navitrak continues to track the moored vessel's movement against a configurable drift envelope — surge, sway and heading change from the settled position. An alert is raised if movement approaches the envelope limit, alongside wind and tide conditions at the berth, so the marine team can respond before a mooring line or gangway is put at risk.

  • Drift monitored continuously for the full duration alongside, not just during approach
  • Envelope limits set per berth, per vessel class or per operation
  • Wind, tide and fender load shown alongside the drift reading, not as separate systems
Across the operation

From first approach to final report.

The way a terminal actually experiences a call — Navitrak covers each moment of it, on one record.

Track record

Metratek Telematics has built marine-terminal sensing software since 2008 — from DockAssist, among the first systems to integrate AIS with laser berthing sensors, to Navitrak's ground-up rebuild with 3D lidar and continuous fender physics. Eighteen years, one focus: berthing-aid and traffic-monitoring software, and nothing else.

Engineering evidence

From fender datasheet to per-event performance.

Fender datasheet curves, berth geometry and calibration are combined with the live approach and mooring data to estimate deflection, reaction force, absorbed energy and percentage of rated capacity for each fender, continuously.

See engineering analytics

More than a display from a sensor package.

Conventional berthing aid systems show distance and speed during the approach — and then the numbers are gone. Navitrak keeps the full multi-sensor record, replays it, and turns it into evidence.

A disputed fender contact shows the difference: with a conventional system you have whatever the operator wrote down; with Navitrak you have the replay, the force on each fender, and a report generated at the time — not reconstructed afterwards.

Standards

Designed with reference to the standards that matter.

OCIMF
MEG4 mooring guidance informs the mooring and drift policy
PIANC
WG145 berthing velocity criteria inform the envelope defaults
IECEx / ATEX
hazardous-area sensor options per site classification
IMO
SOLAS and traffic conventions behind the AIS / VTMS layer
ISO
quality and data-management references
ISA / IEC 62443
OT cybersecurity requirements referenced in the design

Discuss your berth layout with engineering.

Send berth count, terminal type, existing sensors and project timing, and the engineering team will follow up directly.