{"id":336,"date":"2018-09-24T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2018\/09\/24\/automated-handling-in-santos-impracticable\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:43:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:43:57","slug":"automated-handling-in-santos-impracticable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/south-america\/automated-handling-in-santos-impracticable\/","title":{"rendered":"Automated handling in Santos \u201cimpracticable\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Adilson Luiz Gon\u00e7alves, who oversaw the research, noted that while automated processes already exist at the port, there is no operational automation as such.<\/p>\n<p>There are existing physical constraints working against automation. Some terminals are cut in two by rail links, thereby reducing storage capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Among these bottlenecks is the need for structural and functional adjustments, including a change in the physical arrangement of operational areas.<\/p>\n<p>Existing port legislation, especially that relating to individual workers handling cargo, also predicates against automation.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, demand is not sufficient to justify the large investment that an automated terminal would need, the research found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research project undertaken by three civil engineering students at Universidade Santa Cec\u00edlia in Brazils Santos has suggested that introducing an automated container terminal at the Port of Santos is currently \u201cimpracticable\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","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=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}