Singapore aims to build world’s largest automated port at Tuas

February 28, 2025

Singapore is working to turn its western port of Tuas into a “port of the future,” consolidating other ports in the city-state into a massive, fully automated hub incorporating artificial intelligence technology.

Despite its small size, Singapore has developed as a trade hub since the 19th century, leveraging its position as a gateway between East and West. The city-state is a major center for transshipment, transferring cargo from small vessels from nearby countries onto larger ships bound for Europe or the U.S.

Singapore is the world’s second-largest port city by cargo volume. It handled a record 41.12 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in 2024, up 5% on the year, according to the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA).

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Although it is behind Shanghai, which reached 50 million TEUs, Tuas’s expansion is expected to boost Singapore’s capacity to 65 million TEUS once the port is completed in the 2040s.

Scale is not the project’s sole objective. It also aims to account for the drastic changes in the environment around ports in recent years, such as environmental and security issues and technological changes. The challenges it faces include how to operate one of the world’s largest ports with minimal staffing and how to defend against sophisticated cyberattacks.

Source: Nikkei Asia