DockFinder: Optimise fleet maintenance scheduling across yards and resources

Vessel, Rig and ship owners  need continuous visibility into which yards have available slots, current pricing and capacity across a fleet, but this information is often scattered and difficult to track in real time.

Enigma.i's DockFinder acts as a real-time agent giving overall control of available slots, yards, pricing and capacity across the fleet. It is used to plan and schedule dry-docking, maintenance windows and surveys, integrated with operational calendars and contract schedules, helping ship owners and shipyard operators minimise downtime and optimise asset utilisation.

How the platform reduces time and cost

DockFinder continuously processes and cross-matches more than 50 technical, operational, commercial and contractual metadata points for every vessel-to-yard opportunity. This includes vessel dimensions and technical requirements, dock limitations, crane capacity, shore power, environmental and class requirements, current occupancy, estimated queue time, historical capacity pressure, available booking windows, pricing, lead time, contractual schedules and previous RFQ and award data.

Instead of planners manually searching databases, spreadsheets, broker networks and email chains, DockFinder automatically eliminates unsuitable yards, ranks technically viable alternatives and identifies the strongest combination of availability, capability, price, location, risk and schedule.

Illustrative customer impact

For a typical docking, maintenance or survey-planning process, DockFinder can potentially deliver:

• 40–120 planning and procurement hours saved per eventby reducing manual searches, data entry, email follow-up and quotation comparison.
• 60–80% shorter RFQ and yard-selection cycles, moving the process from several working days to a coordinated workflow completed in hours.
• Lower docking and maintenance coststhrough wider yard competition, transparent quote comparison and stronger negotiation leverage.
• Reduced waiting time and off-hire exposureby identifying capacity constraints and alternative yards before the preferred operational window is lost.
• Fewer technical mismatches and rejected enquiriesby validating vessel dimensions, dock limitations and scope requirements before an RFQ is issued.
• Higher fleet utilisationby coordinating dock availability with maintenance plans, surveys, charter commitments and contract schedules.

For fleets managing multiple vessels, rigs or annual yard stays, the accumulated effect can represent hundreds or thousands of saved man-hours each year. More importantly, preventing even a single avoidable day of waiting, off-hire or schedule disruption can generate a financial benefit that materially exceeds the annual cost of the platform.

DockFinder therefore does more than show where capacity may be available. It converts fragmented global yard data into faster decisions, stronger commercial outcomes and measurable improvements in asset utilisation.