March/April 2019 Volume 9 Number 2CONTENTS“If you think of a conventional terminal that’s not running any automation at all, a lot of these departments within the terminal run in a very ‘siloed’ fashion. As you start automating – whether it’s even semi-automating or completely automating – it’s no longer siloed.” – Thomas Rucker,President, Tideworks Technology10 Bunkers Management Fifty Shades of Preparedness for IMO 2020 By Alok Sharma14 Insights Transportation Industry Outlook 2019 By Mike Birge and Steve Bojan16 Terminal Automation The Future of TOS By Joseph Keefe20 Insights Using Technology to Streamline Operations in Container Shipping By Alexander Buchmann43 Tech File Container xChange: matchmakers for lonely containersAlso in this Edition 8 | Editor’s Note 45 | Statistics: The Top 25 Ports in 2018 48 | Advertiser’s Index2 Maritime Logistics Professional March/April 2019| |