High-velocity gate & customs intelligence for maritime terminals.
PortNexus replaces manual gate tally sheets, port demurrage traps, and disputed container deposit deductions with industrial maritime AI. We audit ISO container damage to IICL-6 standards in under 350ms, pre-underwrite PAAR & HS-codes, and automate USD/NGN deposit escrow across 14,500+ TEUs monthly.
ContainerVision™ IICL-6 • 99.5% Confidence
#MSCU-849201-4 — Pre-Existing 38mm Dent Logged
Zero lessee liability • 100% container deposit refund locked
Where West African Cargo Slows Down
Why clipboard gate surveys & late tariff checks choke berth-to-gate flow.
Moving containers through Tin Can Island, Apapa, Lekki Deep Sea Port, Onne, and inland dry ports without autonomous optical and customs telemetry exposes shippers and terminal operators to hundreds of millions in punitive demurrage, unreturned container deposits, and yard congestion.
Legacy Port & Clearing Friction
- 01Wrongful Container Deposit Deductions: Importers and clearing agents forfeit billions in container caution deposits annually because manual gate-in tally clerks fail to document pre-existing vessel dents and corrosion.
- 02Customs PAAR & HS-Code Demand Notices: Misclassified 10-digit HS tariff codes and Form M valuation variances trigger Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) alerts that trap cargo in 14+ day progressive demurrage.
- 0360-to-90 Day Deposit Refund Delays: Even when empty containers are returned intact to holding bays, manual shipping-line reconciliation stalls USD/NGN deposit refunds for up to three months.
- 04Blind Yard Stacking & Truck Gridlock: Unsynchronized truck call-ups force reach-stackers to perform 3–4 unproductive container re-stows for every single delivery order.
The PortNexus Autonomous OS
- ✓ContainerVision™ (PortViT-ISO-v4): 6-sided gantry computer vision grades structural dents, corrosion age, and ISO 17712 bolt seals in < 350ms, generating an immutable IICL-6 Equipment Interchange Receipt (EIR).
- ✓TariffSentinel™ (HSCode-Transformer-v3): Pre-audits PAAR, Form M, and commercial invoices against ECOWAS CET tariff schedules 72 hours pre-berth to guarantee Green-Channel clearance.
- ✓TerminalEscrow™ Multi-Currency Vaults: Holds shipping-line caution deposits and barge/clearing milestones in neutral USD/NGN escrow, triggering 48-hour refunds upon empty drop-off scan.
- ✓BerthYield™ Predictive Yard Telemetry: Synchronizes vessel discharge lists, Navis N4 yard slots, and e-Call-Up truck arrivals to cut gate turnaround to 18 hours.
Berth-to-Hinterland Cargo Flow
Seamless handoffs from vessel manifest to cleared gate exit.
From pre-berth customs underwriting and gantry computer vision to automated container deposit recovery, PortNexus eliminates maritime trade friction.
01Pre-Arrival PAAR & HS Audit
72 hours before vessel berthing, TariffSentinel™ parses BAPLIE/COPARN manifests and Form M invoices to resolve HS-code or valuation variances before customs filing.
02ContainerVision™ Gate-In Scan
As containers discharge to bonded yards or barges, optical portals log ISO numbers, verify bolt seals, and grade pre-existing dents to IICL-6 tolerances in < 350ms.
03BerthYield™ Yard & Call-Up Sync
Predictive stacking algorithms assign optimal yard bay coordinates based on scheduled truck e-Call-Up windows, eliminating unproductive reach-stacker re-stows.
04TerminalEscrow™ Deposit Refund
Upon empty container return at the holding bay or inland dry port, ContainerVision™ compares gate-out vs return scans and triggers 48-hour USD/NGN deposit refunds.
See how PortNexus clears gate & customs bottlenecks live.
Test live ISO container damage vision triage, neural HS-code & PAAR customs underwriting, and corridor throughput optimization across Nigerian ports.
Select Incoming Gate-In / Gate-Out Container Scan
- IICL-6 Side-Panel Compression Depth: 38mm (Below 50mm repair threshold): ₦0
- Pre-Existing Rust Oxidation Spectrum Verified (> 45 days marine exposure): ₦0
- Automated EIR (Equipment Interchange Receipt) Cryptographic Signoff: Included
TerminalEscrow™ Auto-Locked 100% Container Deposit Refund
< 350ms gate-in optical scan • Instant EIR timestamp
Rugged Harbor Edge & Trade Cloud
Deployed across AWS, NVIDIA & Microsoft Azure.
Ruggedized harbor gantry vision inference, EDI terminal orchestration, and hardware-isolated customs & banking enclaves engineered for West African ports.
AWS Maritime Cloud Fabric
AWS SageMaker EDI & tariff model hosting, AWS KMS FIPS 140-2 Level 3 encryption for TerminalEscrow™ USD/NGN accounts, and Amazon S3 WORM Object Lock for immutable EIR gate scans.
NVIDIA Metropolis & TensorRT
NVIDIA TensorRT™ acceleration delivering sub-350ms 6-sided container damage segmentation and ISO 6346 OCR on NVIDIA L40S GPUs and IP67 Jetson Orin gate appliances.
Microsoft Azure Trade Enclaves
Azure Confidential Computing (AMD SEV-SNP) for confidential commercial invoice and Form M parsing, paired with zero-data-retention Azure OpenAI customs nomenclature synthesis.
Proven Terminal & Corridor Gains
Operating across busy ports, dry docks & freight lanes.
Atlantic Gate Bonded Terminals & Maritime Logistics Ltd
“Deploying ContainerVision™ across our Tin Can Island and Lekki Deep Sea bonded gates eliminated ₦380M in wrongful shipping-line container damage deductions and demurrage disputes within 9 months.”
Onne Oil & Gas Free-Zone Freight Consortium Ltd
“TariffSentinel™ pre-audits our specialized subsea and industrial project cargo manifests 72 hours before vessel arrival at Onne Port, achieving 99.7% PAAR/HS-code pre-clearance accuracy and an 18-hour gate turnaround.”
Inland Dry-Port & Export Corridor Holdings Ltd
“Across our Kaduna, Kano, and Enugu inland dry ports, TerminalEscrow™ and ContainerVision™ automated 100% of our USD and NGN shipping-line container deposit refunds within 48 hours of empty container return.”
Active Berths & Bonded Yards
Container gates & inland depots streamlined across the region.
From Tin Can Island and Lekki Deep Sea Port in Lagos to Onne Port and northern inland dry ports, PortNexus governs 14,500+ TEUs every month.
Tin Can & Apapa Bonded Yards
High-volume import/export container terminals
Lekki Deep Sea Barge & Yard Hub
Automated post-Panamax intermodal corridor
Onne Oil & Gas Free-Zone Berths
Subsea, petrochemical & project cargo terminal
Kaduna-Kano-Enugu Dry Ports
Hinterland rail/truck bonded clearance hubs
Founding Operators
Built by port logistics veterans & industrial vision engineers.
Headquartered at 3 Roseline Ezeka Street, Golf Estate, Enugu with port telemetry engineering teams in Apapa/Lekki (Lagos), Onne (Rivers), and Kano.
Stephen Nzubechukwu A.
Maritime trade strategist and enterprise logistics executive with extensive experience structuring bonded container terminal operations, multi-currency shipping-line escrow frameworks, and customs pre-clearance governance across Nigeria and West Africa.
Spearheads PortNexus's institutional partnerships across 22 bonded terminals, licensed customs clearing houses, and export fleets handling 14,500+ TEUs monthly.
Adeleke Timothy
Maritime computer vision researcher and trade compliance AI architect with over a decade of experience designing 3D stereo-depth defect segmentation pipelines, UN/EDIFACT terminal orchestration engines, and high-throughput multi-currency escrow ledgers.
Leads engineering and AI research at PortNexus, architecting our proprietary ContainerVision™ (`PortViT-ISO-v4`) and TariffSentinel™ (`HSCode-Transformer-v3`) engines.
Volume-Based Terminal Licensing
Clear Naira pricing calibrated to monthly TEU volume.
Generating ₦1.82M+ MRR across 22 active bonded terminals, licensed clearing houses, and import/export fleets with immediate ROI from eliminated demurrage and recovered container deposits.
Ideal for licensed customs clearing agencies and freight forwarders clearing up to 250 TEUs per month.
- Up to 250 TEUs/mo gate-in/out mobile & portal audits
- ContainerVision™ IICL-6 damage & bolt-seal verification
- TariffSentinel™ 10-digit HS-code & PAAR pre-check
- Automated Equipment Interchange Receipt (EIR) archive
Full autonomous IICL BOQ generation, customs demurrage underwriting, and container deposit recovery for up to 1,500 TEUs/mo.
- Up to 1,500 TEUs/mo with multi-lane gate OCR
- Automated IICL-6 repair BOQ & rust-age forensics
- TerminalEscrow™ USD/NGN shipping-line deposit recovery
- Full TariffSentinel™ PAAR, Form M & SONCAP audit
- BerthYield™ e-Call-Up truck & barge dispatch sync
Custom multi-berth architecture for deep-sea port concessions, inland dry-port networks, and oil & gas free zones.
- Unlimited TEUs across multiple berths, gates & dry ports
- Direct Navis N4, NICIS II, CargoWise & SAP GTS EDI sync
- Ruggedized NVIDIA Jetson Orin gantry edge hardware
- Dedicated Port Telemetry Engineer & 15-minute SLA
Operations & Customs Questions
Straight answers for terminal directors & clearing executives.
Everything Terminal Directors, Licensed Customs Agents, and Import/Export Supply Chain Heads need to know about deploying PortNexus.
Need UN/EDIFACT (CODECO/BAPLIE) integration specs, gate optical camera blueprints, or shipping-line escrow covenants? Contact stephen@portnexus.site or 08132262929.
When a container exits or enters a bonded terminal, ContainerVision™ captures high-resolution 6-sided optical and stereo-depth scans in under 350ms. It measures dent depth in millimeters against IICL-6 (Institute of International Container Lessors) tolerances and uses rust-oxidation spectroscopy to prove pre-existing marine damage—eliminating bogus importer repair deductions.