“Most of them will be replaced by robots.”
A lot of the work already has... it’s inherent to the containerization that occurred 50+ years ago. Very innovative.
The railroad system can track every container on every train car with sensors along the routes. The whole process is technologically robust.
Once off loaded the shuttling of containers around the shipyard to the trucking or rail heads in the proximity of that same Shipyard has gone the way of logistical automation.
Commerce drives this bus, maintaining the flow of commerce in and out of our country, and the distribution thereof is where the jobs are.
Next look at the push to get Trucking automated where it is driverless... there are just certain jobs that cannot be done by automation alone. But many within the logistical train can be automated and that includes many portside specialities.