Road closures near the port gates each morning
Closures near the port gates before the first trucks leave.
What it does
Every weekday at 5:00: road closures and roadworks within 3 km of the port, with a routing note by xMap AI for hauliers, sent on WhatsApp before the first trucks leave.
In one sentence: Mon–Fri at 05:00, in Hamburg, find road closures and roadworks, write a report with xMap AI, then send message in WhatsApp Business and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
A closed road to the gate means missed slots. Hauliers get the routing note at 5:00.
Who it is for
Ports, shipping & maritime. Port operators, ship agents, marine suppliers, terminals and marinas following vessels, weather and the business around the water. Every use case for ports & shipping
Best use cases
- A port community system
- A haulage company
- A terminal’s gate team
What each run gives you
- A WhatsApp message
The time it saves
Mon–Fri at 05:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 20 minutes each time; it runs about 22 times a month, so it saves about 7 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every weekday morningTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Around the portWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Closures near the portxMap data · Traffic incidentsRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
- Write the haulier notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Send it to the hauliersApp · WhatsApp BusinessSend text, media and template messages from your WhatsApp Business number.
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Traffic incidents and road closures: Closures and roadworks in an area or near each of your places.
- Score, rank and label with xMap LLM: A score and a reason for every result, in your words.
- Geofencing: A virtual boundary that triggers something when an item enters or leaves it.
- AIS (ship tracking): Radio messages ships send with their identity, position and course.
- How to be alerted when ships enter a port area: A zone, a live AIS stream and an alert.
More for Ports, shipping & maritime
- New shipping companies and forwarders in the port city: New shipping firms and forwarders, scored as marine insurance clients.
- Hotels near the port for crew changes: The best hotels near the port, for crew changes.
- Shipyards for my coatings and paint sales: Shipyards graded as coatings buyers, with the purchasing manager.
- Ferry terminals with few fast chargers nearby: Ferry terminals with the fewest fast chargers nearby, every month.
- Ships crossing the strait, every day: Ships crossing a strait each day, by type, with a trade note.
- Ships waiting at anchor, for the berth planner: The queue at anchor every hour, by type, for the berth planner.