Portwise’s Automation Consulting team supports terminal operators in transforming design concepts into fully operational and efficient automated terminals. This process includes making critical decisions about automation implementation, selecting suitable technologies, organising the automation project, identifying risks, identifying critical integration needs, and establishing necessary operational structures post-automation, to avoid project delays and overspending.
Many container terminals around the world still have (mostly) manual operations, and the need for automation increases due to environmental considerations, labour shortages, and the desire to achieve better efficiencies and capacity utilisation.
When a successful automation design study for a brownfield or greenfield terminal has been done, objectives have been set. And with that, challenges and questions on automation projects arise, especially since most of the automation solution providers focus only on technical feasibility. When addressing these challenges adequately, the chance of additional costs, project delays and an unsatisfactory automation implementation will decrease.
Portwise supports you at each step of your automation project. This can include tender assistance and evaluation, risk reduction and rollout strategies, testing, implementation, change management, and performance optimisation.
Based on our expertise and experiences from many automation implementation projects around the world, we meet the needs of terminals to take their automation projects to new heights.
