<story><title>Do U.S. ports need more automation?</title><url>https://www.construction-physics.com/p/do-us-ports-need-more-automation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zubiaur</author><text>Automation messes up the flow of illegal drugs. The big stuff does not come in a backpack but in container ships&amp;#x2F;trucks.&lt;p&gt;In LATAM, dock workers make sure this goes undetected. I know of an IE who was championing a dock worker scheduling optimization algo, typical Operations Management stuff. Dude was killed.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to think that this kind of things do not happen here. But every time I&amp;#x27;ve thought along those lines, I&amp;#x27;ve been mistaken. It&amp;#x27;s just happens at a different scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>which</author><text>This interpretation is at odds with what happens in Rotterdam aka cocaine ground zero (or is it Antwerp now?).  It&amp;#x27;s the most automated port in the world.  They still routinely bust port insiders who help crooks there.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;stories-59379474&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;stories-59379474&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;belgium-netherlands-cocaine-trafficking-narcostate&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vice.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;belgium-netherlands-cocaine-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.occrp.org&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;project&amp;#x2F;narcofiles-the-new-criminal-order&amp;#x2F;inside-job-how-a-hacker-helped-cocaine-traffickers-infiltrate-europes-biggest-ports&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.occrp.org&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;project&amp;#x2F;narcofiles-the-new-criminal...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Do U.S. ports need more automation?</title><url>https://www.construction-physics.com/p/do-us-ports-need-more-automation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zubiaur</author><text>Automation messes up the flow of illegal drugs. The big stuff does not come in a backpack but in container ships&amp;#x2F;trucks.&lt;p&gt;In LATAM, dock workers make sure this goes undetected. I know of an IE who was championing a dock worker scheduling optimization algo, typical Operations Management stuff. Dude was killed.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to think that this kind of things do not happen here. But every time I&amp;#x27;ve thought along those lines, I&amp;#x27;ve been mistaken. It&amp;#x27;s just happens at a different scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snapetom</author><text>&amp;gt; Automation messes up the flow of illegal drugs.&lt;p&gt;This is the real reason and one of the primary reasons productivity won&amp;#x27;t be optimized, especially at the LATAM ports.</text></comment>