Learn how Tideworks Insight, Blackfin, and in-depth training helps large terminal networks create efficiencies through standardization.
Learn how Tideworks Insight, Blackfin, and in-depth training helps large terminal networks create efficiencies through standardization.
When terminals need help effectively utilizing and fine-tuning the Tideworks Terminal Operating System (TOS), they turn to our operational consulting and analysis services. Our team of professionals has many years of experience in terminal operations and an in-depth understanding of our clients’ business and the Tideworks TOS solutions.
No single intermodal terminal is exactly the same. Each has a different footprint, layout, and track configuration. Local agreements will differ, as will the geography, weather, and a host of other factors. Trying to design a one-size-fits-all TOS is a fool’s errand.
Port automation is the future, but the future is very much founded in the present. Automation is already helping ports around the world increase efficiency, serve more customers and handle more cargo with fewer resources, and increase visibility into the data that drives better decisions.
The old days of business intelligence weren’t that long ago. The field is moving forward at breakneck speed, and data practices that were unheard of just a few years ago are now commonplace. The way that businesses, and terminals specifically, should be approaching their data collection is changing, and those that ignore the shift will find themselves at a disadvantage.
Terminal operations are constantly facing multitudes of challenges that they have to overcome to survive. Increasing container sizes are pushing the traditional limits of terminal processes and throughput, and terminals are constantly looking for ways to improve efficiency just to keep up. To succeed in today’s world, terminals have to…
We live in a big data world, it’s hard to deny it. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are doing everything from improving industrial agriculture to providing recipe recommendations and telling you about restaurants nearby that you might like. Data is everywhere, in every industry, in every home. That being said,…
Working with Tideworks Insight and the Tideworks team over the past few months, one company has discovered its secret sauce to building a stellar data team. Read their tips here to understand their recipe for success and learn how you can apply the same ideas to your own organization and…

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.
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