Wind at the port: when to hold crane work
When to hold crane and mooring work, from the hourly wind.
What it does
Every morning: the hour-by-hour wind forecast at the port, the windiest hours first, with advice by xMap AI on when to hold crane and mooring operations, posted to the operations channel.
In one sentence: Every day at 05:30, in Rotterdam, get the 1-day weather forecast, sort them by wind_kmh and keep the top 5, write a report with xMap AI, then send message to a channel in Slack and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Cranes and mooring stop in strong wind. Knowing the windy hours in the morning keeps the day’s plan realistic.
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 container terminal
- A port operations team
- A stevedoring company
What each run gives you
- A Slack post
The time it saves
Every day at 05:30. Doing the same work by hand takes about 20 minutes each time; it runs about 30 times a month, so it saves about 10 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every morningTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- The portWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Wind hour by hourxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Best 5 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Write the advicexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Post it to #port-opsApp · SlackChannel-based messaging platform
- 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.
- Weather forecast: Up to 16 days for each place or city.
- 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.
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- 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.