Middleware development and AI agents for logistics and port companies in Rotterdam

Rotterdam runs on hand-overs between systems. One container can pass through a shipping line booking, a terminal, a customs declaration, a forwarder’s TMS, a warehouse and an invoice, and many of those steps still arrive as EDI messages, emails, PDFs or portal downloads. Port-wide information already moves through Portbase, the port community system for the ports of Rotterdam and Amsterdam; the work that remains is connecting your own ERP, TMS and WMS to it and to your carriers, customers and customs broker. That is where most of our Rotterdam work sits: middleware that translates, validates and routes messages between systems, with retries, monitoring and an audit trail, and AI agents only for the steps that need a document read, an exception judged or a reply written. The same pattern serves energy and chemicals companies in Europoort, Botlek and Pernis, where maintenance records, permits and plant data often live in separate systems.

For port, energy and logistics operators, compliance covers the integrations as well as the applications. The Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens supervises the GDPR and the Dutch UAVG and is the coordinating supervisor for algorithms and AI in the Netherlands. The EU AI Act adds transparency duties from 2 August 2026 and standalone high-risk obligations from 2 December 2027. Since 15 August 2026 the Cyberbeveiligingswet, the Dutch implementation of the NIS2 directive, applies to covered organisations in sectors such as energy, transport including ports, and chemicals, with a duty of care, incident reporting and registration with the NCSC. Because middleware sits in the path of operational data, we build it with least-privilege access, documented data flows and a log of every message and change, so your security and privacy officers can review it.