Opinions differ over how terminals should use IT to optimise their operations and integrate with the supply chain.
As increases in equipment performance become ever more marginal and waterfront property increasingly difficult to secure, container terminals have to “do more with less” and increase capacity and productivity through better systems. The terminal operating system (TOS) is the core element in such a strategy and there are many different views on the best and most cost-effective way to develop the TOS to boost capacity and productivity....
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