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Key Performance Metrics

Turn Times: The amount of time a truck spends inside a marine terminal to complete a transaction (measured in minutes).
Single Moves (Mins): The average time required for a truck to complete a single transaction, such as picking up or dropping off one container.
Double Moves (Mins): The average time required for a truck to complete two transactions in a single terminal visit (e.g., dropping off one container and picking up another).
Total Moves (Units): The total number of container transactions completed at the port terminals during the reporting period.
Number of Trouble Tickets: Exceptions or issues requiring special handling or resolution during terminal operations.
Unique Truck Visits: The total number of individual truck entries to port terminals during the reporting period.
Terminal Departure Dwell (Days): The average number of days a container remains at a marine terminal after vessel discharge until it leaves via truck or rail.
Import Rail Departure Dwell (Days): The average number of days a container destined for rail transport remains at the terminal before departing on a train.
Number of Containers: The total count of shipping containers present at the port during the reporting period.

Gate Activity: The movement of trucks in and out of marine terminals, typically measured by RFID readers at terminal gates.
YoY (Year-over-Year): A comparison of metrics between the current reporting period and the same period in the previous year.
PortTruckPass: The system used to track and manage truck movements within the port complex.
RFID Readers: Radio Frequency Identification technology used to scan and record trucks entering marine terminals.
Intermodal: Transportation involving multiple modes (e.g., ship to rail to truck) with containers transferred between these different transportation systems.
Intermodal Connectivity: The efficiency of transfers between different transportation modes, particularly between marine terminals and rail facilities.
Intermodal Transfer Bottlenecks: Points of congestion or delay in the process of transferring containers between transportation modes.
Last-Mile Distribution: The final stage in the delivery process from a distribution center to the end customer.

Red Sea/Suez Canal Vessels: Ships that would normally transit through the Suez Canal to travel between Asia and Europe/East Coast North America.
Cape of Good Hope Rerouting: Alternative shipping route around the southern tip of Africa, used when the Suez Canal route is unavailable or problematic. This route adds significant time and distance to voyages.

PSCI (Port Street Corridor Improvement): Infrastructure project to enhance transportation corridors servicing the port.
Infrastructure Utilization: The degree to which physical port assets (cranes, berths, yards, gates) are being used relative to their capacity.
Supply Chain Resilience: The ability of the port and related logistics networks to adapt to and recover from disruptions.

Weekly Average: The mean value of a metric calculated over a seven-day period.
Percentage Points (pp): Unit used to express the arithmetic difference between two percentages (e.g., a change from 10% to 15% is an increase of 5 percentage points).
Growth Rate: The percentage increase in a metric compared to a previous time period.