Tideworks powers Freightliner’s smart booking automation, Port Technology International

By June 4, 2025July 1st, 2025Articles
Freightliner

Tideworks Technology, a terminal operating system (TOS) provider, has successfully deployed an advanced integration with Freightliner Ltd., a maritime intermodal logistics operator.

The integration streamlines planning by reducing manual processes and improving consistency, speed, and accuracy across Freightliner’s UK terminals — supporting scalable growth and optimised asset utilisation.

The solution links Freightliner’s existing use of Tideworks’ Intermodal Pro® (IPRO) with Decisions, a low-code automation platform designed for AI-driven decision-making, enabling intelligent, rule-based automation of rail booking and planning across its UK terminal network.

The deployment also uses Tideworks’ Business Rules Engine and enhanced Planning API to transmit planning data to Decisions, which applies terminal-specific rules to automate booking assignments to virtual railcars.

This reportedly streamlines manual processes, improves data accuracy, and enhances system communication across Freightliner’s network.

READ: BNSF Railway goes live with Tideworks Intermodal TOS

Thomas Rucker, President of Tideworks Technology, said: “By streamlining complex rail bookings with intelligent automation, we’re helping Freightliner reduce planning time, improve data accuracy and increase terminal throughput.

“As a strategic technology partner, we’re focused on delivering scalable, future-ready solutions that empower our customers to operate more efficiently and make faster, data-driven decisions.”

READ: Tideworks celebrates 15 years of Intermodal Pro

Chris Cavanagh, Terminal Systems Manager at Freightliner Ltd, stated: “Our team worked closely with Tideworks to roll out this integration across our network of UK terminals, and we’ve already seen improvements in planning speed and consistency.

“We see Tideworks as a strategic partner in our modernisation efforts and look forward to continued collaboration to adopt emerging technologies that improve planning workflows and operational performance.”

Tideworks Technology attended two key industry events in April: Port Technology International (PTI)’s Intermodal Container Terminal Conference in Düsseldorf, Germany, and the RailFreight Summit on in Gdansk, Poland.

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Mark Traynor

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Mark Traynor joined Tideworks in 2026 as Chief Product & Technology Officer, bringing more than two decades of hands-on experience in building and deploying terminal technology and automation systems. In this role Mark will lead the company’s product management and engineering organizations and is responsible for the product roadmap and the modernization of the Tideworks platform.

Before Tideworks, Mark was Chief Technology Officer at Lynxis, whose Nascent gate automation systems deployed in nearly 100 marine and rail terminals across North and South America. For Lynxis, Mark led a globally distributed 70+ person engineering team that built a modern, configuration-driven platform on a single codebase while introducing a visual workflow configuration designed to streamline customer implementations. He also introduced cutting-edge computer vision and agentic AI solutions as well as the re-engineering of the hardware to run on readily available commercial components rather than bespoke systems sourced from specialist manufacturers.

For the 13 years before that, Mark was an independent technology partner to major North American automated marine terminal projects, including Virginia International Terminals and Long Beach Container Terminal. These operators relied on him to help lead their most complex terminal operating system implementations driving efficiency and reliability through their gate, rail, yard and vessel operations.

Mark began his career at Navis in 2004, delivering terminal operating system implementations across North America and Europe.