CyberLogitec Takes the Mediterranean's First Semi-Automated Terminal — With a Digital Twin Attached

CyberLogitec has won the contract to supply the terminal operating system and digital twin for the B1 expansion at TTI Algeciras, and the pairing is the point: the operating system and the simulator of the operating system, bought together. The deal: CyberLogitec's OPUS Terminal platform will coordinate vessel, yard, gate and equipment operations in a single environment at TTI Algeciras — jointly owned by HMM and a CMA CGM-affiliated investment company, and positioned as the Mediterranean and Southern Europe's first semi-automated container terminal. The B1 expansion takes annual capacity from 1.6m TEU to 2.1m TEU by 2028, adding 500,000 TEU. Alongside the TOS, the digital twin provides a real-time visual representation of terminal activity and equipment status and — the operationally important part — allows scenario simulation before changes are deployed live. The Port of Algeciras Bay was ranked Europe's most efficient container port in the World Bank and S&P Global 2025 Container Port Performance Index, so this is an upgrade to a terminal that already works. Why this matters for ship managers: this is the direct answer to the HHLA story we led with last week. Hamburg cut its 2026 profit guidance partly because automating a live terminal disrupted it more than expected — the automation J-curve, in a regulated disclosure. A digital twin that lets a terminal test the change in simulation before imposing it on real ships is precisely the tooling that shortens that curve. Whether it works is now testable: Algeciras is expanding with a twin, Hamburg converted without one being central to the story, and we will be able to compare. What to do now: when a terminal you call announces an automation or expansion programme, ask directly whether they are simulating the transition and what the modelled productivity dip is. That question separates operators who have planned the disruption from operators who will discover it. The honest caveat: no contract value, no timeline for the digital twin's go-live and no productivity or throughput targets were disclosed, and "semi-automated" is doing real work in that sentence — this is not a fully automated terminal. A digital twin also only simulates what it has been built to model; the failures that hurt in a transition are usually the ones nobody thought to put in the model. [Port Technology]

This story is part of the Maritime AI Digest of 2 August 2026.

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