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This January 2023, Gen\u00eds Majoral and Sergi Saur\u00ed presented at the 102nd TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, a research entitled \u201cLessons from Reality on Automated Container Terminals: What Can Be Expected from Future Technological Developments.\u201d The paper will be shortly published at the Transportation Research Record Journal so stay tuned for its release.<\/p>\n
The research focused on an analysis of productivity at container terminals and the performance of automated versus manned operations. This is a topic that has received some attention, but when approaching different stakeholders of the sector there was no clear opinion on whether automated terminals are more productive than manned ones.<\/p>\n
This topic is gaining relevance because the number of automated terminals, despite representing only 5% of the terminals worldwide, is progressively increasing and is expected to do so in the future at a faster rate.<\/p>\n
The study analyzed through literature review, interviews with stakeholders, a benchmark of productivity rates and the use of the World Bank\u2019s Container Port Performance Index a characterization of the topic and found out that there is currently no evidence to say that automated container terminals are more productive than manned ones.<\/p>\n
When analyzing the barriers that prevent that, it is clear that the technology is not ready for a harsh and unpredictable environment like a port. Proof is that the first automated terminal was built in Rotterdam in 1993 and since then the same problems still take place. It is therefore deemed that not only a matter of optimization but a radical change of paradigm in the technological capacity is needed to overcome the current barriers that automated terminals face.<\/p>\n
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