Master's in Container Terminal Engineering

The engineering of container terminals: layout and capacity, handling equipment, quays, pavements and civil works, simulation, automation, terminal operating systems, maintenance, cybersecurity, multimodal flows and sustainability.

STS, RTG, RMG and automated stacking cranes, straddle carriers, reach stackers and AGVs, as well as quays, yard pavements and drainage, electrical installations, gates, reefer and dangerous goods areas, workshops and terminal buildings.

Operations are covered, but the focus is on engineering decisions: sizing equipment, designing the layout and civil works, defining the control and network architecture and planning terminal expansion, all supported by simulation and data.

An engineering background helps, but graduates in logistics, maritime transport or business and port professionals with operational experience can also join; the admission interview helps confirm that your profile fits.

Yes. You model terminal operations to analyze capacity and bottlenecks and study PLC, SCADA, TOS, industrial IoT protocols such as MQTT and OPC UA, RFID, computer vision and digital twins.

Yes. You study defense-in-depth architectures, industrial network segmentation, identity management, IEC 62443 and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and you work through incident simulations in automated terminals.

Through simulations, case studies and practical exercises in each module, including a terminal layout project, and a Final Project in which you design an integrated automation, sustainability and management system for a container terminal.

A master's degree issued by Navalis Institute as its own qualification, together with the layouts, simulations and technical reports you produce during the program, which you can use as a professional portfolio.