Ports, But Make Them Agentic: When LLMs Start Running the Yard
Opening — Why this matters now Ports are supposed to be automated. In practice, many of their most critical decisions still depend on a small priesthood of optimization specialists, tribal operational knowledge, and painfully slow deployment cycles. Vehicle Dispatching Systems (VDSs) — the logic that tells fleets of AGVs where to go and when — are a prime example. They promise up to 30% efficiency gains, yet stubbornly resist scaling from one terminal to another. ...