Technical Papers

• Remotely controlled STS cranes

  The performance of STS cranes is a limiting factor in the achievement of maximum throughput in container terminals. The need for high performance has driven the recent rapid development of these cranes.

• The Panama Canal expansion: business as usual or game changer for ship design?

  In the Port Focus section of edition 51 of this journal, Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Dr. Theo Notteboom considered the question: the Panama Canal expansion- business as usual or gamechanger? They considered this question from the point of view of trade development, noting the ‘divergence of opinion’ on the subject due to the complexity of trade and the number of variables and feedback loops involved. Research by the authors of this article has looked at this question from a different perspective – what effect may the expansion have on ship design?

• Analysing electric yard cranes with simulation

  Electric yard cranes, such as RTGs and RMGCs, are becoming increasingly common in terminals today. Although RTGs have traditionally been diesel powered, there is a major trend in the container handling industry to shift towards electronically powered RTGs.

• CCTV and IP surveillance

  The security industry has long been synonymous with the term Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), but in fact the CCTV industry has been anything but ‘closed circuit’ for many years.

• The preferred scale of container terminals

  Both terminal operators and port authorities are interested in knowing the optimal scale for a terminal they are going to operate or lease. Container terminal operators are interested in the terminal scale as it will affect their operational cost structure and will have implications on the commercial strategy needed to attract container volumes. Port authorities are implicitly or explicitly interested in the scale of terminals in their ports in the context of the concessioning of port land.

PTI Multimedia

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• Video: Guam proceeds with port modernization plan and begins procurement of new gantry cranes - 17 Nov 2011

• Video: ‘The Missing Link - Improving the mooring process’ - 14 Oct 2011

• Video: Berths 8 & 9 open at the Port of Felixstowe - 03 Oct 2011