“Top Ten……

By June 15, 2015All

…Things that Wake Up Marine Terminal Managers in the Middle of the Night”
From the TW home office in Seattle, WA.

10. Good-for-nothing-brother-in-law Assistant Terminal Managers

9. Wake up?! There’s no sleeping in Terminal Management!

8. Two Words: Corn Dogs

7. “Wait…Was that container’s Final Destination Oakland or Auckland?”

6. That recurring nightmare where every container on terminal is exactly the same size and weight.

5. Not really wanting to know but wondering why the Hoot Shift goes through so much Xerox paper.

4. “What exactly is the cloud?”

3. “No way. Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert are getting divorced?”

2. The cast and crew of “Sixty Minutes” would like to come out to your facility and shoot a “little story.”

And the Number One “Thing that Wakes Up Marine Terminal Managers in the Middle of the Night”

1. Consignee = Heisenberg

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.