Tideworks discusses how terminals can get more out of their data, Container Management

By February 6, 2024November 14th, 2024Articles
Chad Van Derrick

January/February 2024

With issues such as the Panama Canal’s restrictions and the attacks in the Red Sea making it a challenge for terminal operations to accurately forecast demand and volumes, terminals should leverage different data types to improve accuracy, according to Chad Van Derrick, vice president of software product management at Tideworks Technology.

He noted that integrations are crucial to increasing and maintaining precision across tech deployments and data.

Van Derrick told CM: “Terminal operating systems (TOS) solutions work to provide precise data to identify patterns and trends, allowing for more accurate demand and volume forecasts. Integrations from TOS also enable port systems to have different touch points of data. This technology allows for scenario planning that can account for a range of potential supply chain disruptions and changes in demand.”

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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.