While logistics optimization focused mainly on warehouses and transport for years, the outside area of logistics sites – the so-called yard – often remained underexposed. According to VIL, significant efficiency gains can be achieved there. With the new theme tour ‘Yards with Brains’, LogiVille wants to introduce companies to technologies that make the management of these zones smarter and more efficient.
At distribution centers, yard activities represent an average of 12% of total operating costs. In container or ro-ro terminals, this share can even rise to 30%. These costs arise, among other things, from long waiting times, inefficient flow of vehicles, underutilized capacity and safety risks.
According to Paul Van Nuffel, manager of LogiVille, the yard is often the least digitized link in the supply chain today. Yet digitalization can bring significant benefits. For example, a Yard Management System (YMS) can increase productivity by approximately 25% and improve throughput times and loading dock utilization by up to 40%. A YMS forms the link between the transport management system (TMS) and the warehouse management system (WMS).
In addition to YMS solutions, the theme tour also covers other technologies, such as smart access control and lock bookings, real-time tracking, AI-driven planning systems, autonomous terminal tractors, inspection drones and advanced security solutions.
During ‘Yards with Brains’, from March 11 to June 30, 2026 in LogiVille, ten companies will present their innovations in four domains: yard management, yard control and surveillance, inspection and maintenance and yard mobility. 4MIT, Streamliner, Deloitte, Parkeet, BauWatch, Luxor One, Dipla, Gemsotec, CEYAS and micro4TRO are among others participating.
“For our start-up in drone and satellite data, this theme tour is a great platform to get to know logistics companies,” says ‘co-founder’ Thomas Sabbe of Luxor One.
You can register via the LogiVille website.
