What You Will Love About the New Mainsail 10

By August 10, 2020November 10th, 2026Mainsail

Like the rest of the logistics world, Tideworks has been forced to adapt to the industry’s new normal in light of the realities presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, similar to many of our resolute customers, Tideworks has been hard at work preparing for our next big thing: Mainsail 10. We wanted to give a few of our key stakeholders a chance to explain why they believe Mainsail 10 is a game-changer, no matter what the future holds.

“Well, we’ve been busy these last few months. We’ve been focused on dialing in the user experience, adding features and tools, everything to really bolster the product. The software that we used to build Mainsail 10 will not only satisfy your current business model, but this platform allows for so much more flexibility and growth of your business. It is a new platform for sure, but you won’t miss a beat. Regarding an upgrade, it’s never an easy time to do that. To relate a personal experience, I had an old phone, it’s extremely slow, and I just managed to deal with it. But after the upgrade, I couldn’t be happier with the capabilities and you may encounter a similar experience with Mainsail 10. We promise to keep the process seamless and simple as possible. You won’t regret it.” Mark Longman

“Most of the action in a terminal falls onto real people’s shoulders. But those people need a system to rely on for control of the inventory. People need to have the utmost confidence in that system. They need to know what data they’re seeing means, what is inside, and what is out of the terminal. So that’s what Mainsail 10 does right. The system is extremely flexible and adapts to your own needs and preferences. Need to export from Excel and import to Mainsail 10? Easy. Rather use a mouse to navigate than keyboard shortcuts? You can still do that too. Mainsail 10 was designed to give users of all backgrounds, from young to seasoned, technically savvy to untechnical, a chance to visualize key data in meaningful ways.” Edgardo Lopez

“I’m going to date myself. I was lucky to witness many iterations of Tideworks marine TOS products, even from the early days of mainframe-based, to the Mainsail classic with the web forms, to the current Vanguard, and now, Mainsail 10. I can say for certain I’m the most excited about Mainsail 10. Technologies change. Sometimes change can be intimidating. One thing that has not been changed all these years is our commitment to industry-leading product offerings so you’ll never fall behind the competition. That’s the promise we make to our customers and I think we exceeded everyone’s expectations with this TOS iteration. I may be biased, but it’s the best one we delivered so far.” Erdal Taner

Mainsail 10 isn’t just talk. With thousands of hours in development time, Tideworks has added some amazing features requested by customers and maintained many of the aspects that made past Tideworks TOS iterations revolutionary in their own right. Mainsail 10 is the TOS that will power the next generation of terminal operators forward. If you’re a current client, reach out to your Customer Success Manager today with questions about the upgrade process.

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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.