{"id":178,"date":"2018-08-02T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2018\/08\/02\/automation-driven-by-big-players\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:42:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:42:51","slug":"automation-driven-by-big-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/terminal-operations\/automation-driven-by-big-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Automation driven by big players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the message from Dr Eldar Sheykh-Zade, chief executive at smart-Tecs, who spoke exclusively to <em>Port Strategy<\/em> at TOC Europe about automation and its development.<\/p>\n<p>He stated: \u201cEveryone thinks that automation is so important for terminals, which is true but the majority of conversation around automation is driven by big terminals, greenfield terminals and big companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that medium and small terminals should have some element of automation and its development means there are various options for different-sized terminals.<\/p>\n<p>However, he stated even big fully automated terminals still use a significant amount of manual operation, so there is still plenty of evolution left in automation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I think automation is a big challenge,\u201d he commented.<\/p>\n<p>He believes other challenges facing the industry currently include cyber security and information networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re more and more about the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytical tools etc. It is a lot of pressure on networks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Technology is mostly outsourced now because it is cheaper but if once per year there is some major interruption of network it could do some damage for a substantial period, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Security is also important to address as terminals are so vulnerable to hackers and quality is compromised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is less and less quality and sometimes this is driven by the terminal itself as it tries to squeeze the price of software.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of medium and small-sized terminals are not involved in conversation about automation because it is expensive and the return on investment is not clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terminal-operations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}