On 22 April 2026, Maritime Ventures announced the launch of 4T4, an artificial intelligence-based platform designed to tackle congestion involving heavy goods vehicles at port terminals and logistics hubs. The project was developed as part of the initiative promoted by Cdp Venture Capital and managed by Cariplo Factory and Bridgemaker, with the involvement of industrial and institutional partners including Fincantieri, Psa Italy and the Municipality of Genoa. According to analyses carried out with operators across the logistics and port supply chain, thousands of trucks record more than two hours of waiting time at terminal gates every day, with a loss of operating capacity that can reach 30%. For a small or medium-sized road haulage company, this translates into more than €2,200 a month per vehicle. Congestion also affects terminals, creating traffic peaks that are difficult to manage and inefficiencies in container handling, where large ports are estimated to average more than 1.5 non-productive crane moves per unit.
Interviews with operators point to a structural limitation in the transport management systems currently in use. Traditional Transport Management Systems build plans based on ideal conditions and struggle to incorporate delays, operational variability and the constraints of logistics nodes. The result is planning that often cannot be applied in day-to-day operations. 4T4 positions itself as a decision intelligence platform for road haulage companies, introducing a decision-making layer that integrates external and probabilistic terminal constraints into planning processes. The solution aims to transform fleet management from a manual and rigid activity into a structured and adaptable process that can take operational uncertainty into account.
The platform is developed as a SaaS service and is based on three main components. The first is a conversational interface that collects operational instructions from dispatchers through natural language and translates them into structured constraints. The second is a predictive planning engine based on probabilistic algorithms, which processes scenarios by factoring in the likelihood of events and operational disruptions. The third is an orchestration layer that connects hauliers and terminals, integrating operational information from logistics nodes into fleets’ decision-making criteria.
The target market is European road haulage, which comprises about six million heavy goods vehicles, with a significant share of small and medium-sized companies active in container transport. In this segment, estimated at 120,000 vehicles in Europe and 16,000 in Italy, available solutions are often unsuitable in terms of cost or complexity. 4T4 aims to close this gap by offering a platform that is also accessible to operators with fleets of between 10 and 250 vehicles. The start-up has already launched initial trials with a transport company and with Psa Italy, which handled more than two million TEU in 2025. This phase is intended to assess the platform’s effectiveness in reducing waiting times and improving coordination between operators in the port logistics chain.
The launch of 4T4 is Maritime Ventures’ third entrepreneurial development in 18 months, following initiatives in the leisure boating and shipbuilding sectors. Its approach is based on identifying operational pain points in the maritime supply chain and building targeted digital solutions with the support of industrial partners. In port logistics, the focus is on fleet planning, which still relies heavily on manual processes and is difficult to scale when operational variability is high.
