The shipping industry is growing in confidence at AI technology's capacity to run processes at container terminals and expects it to play a big role in operations in the near future. In a survey by Navis, 83% of respondents expect to increase their investment in AI technologies within the next three years. A large proportion of participants also agreed that AI could be involved in automating processes at terminals, such as container handling equipment assignments (81%), decking systems (81%), recommended actions (69%), predicting gate volumes (59%), and stowage of vessels (52%). Approximately 56% said they were either trialling technologies or carrying out research into AI capabilities. However, there is some way to go yet as just 11% confirmed they were already using AI in some capacity in terminal operations. As for what they anticipate the biggest challenge to be with AI, 68% stated that it was a lack of skills in the technology.