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Efficiency of multi-trailer systems for ship to stacks container transportation
Jul 27, 2010
A multi-trailer system (MTS) allows transportation of a larger number of containers as opposed to the traditional single trailer systems. Therefore terminal and port operators consider the MTS as one of the options for increasing efficiency.
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Coal handling at the Port of Seward looks set to improve after ship loader conveyor upgrade
Jun 15, 2010
The Port of Seward has completed a conveyor system upgrade for its coal handling operations that has increased throughput by an estimated 20%, allowing Alaska’s largest coal producer to better compete for international customers.
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A study for optimisation of double cycling in container ports
May 21, 2010
In a rapidly changing marine environment, worldwide container terminals are concentrating on improvement in productivity to reinforce marketing power and to obtain competitive power. In modern terminals, equipment, and facilities, productivity is rapidly developing. Specifically, productivity is progressing with a great deal of investment focused on improving equipment functionality and infrastructure.
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Avoiding being crushed in "elephant land": Innovative lasers detect obstructions
Apr 22, 2010
It’s a problem worldwide. Ships getting bashed by container cranes; straddle carriers nearly losing their cabs as they stray into the path of a crane spreader; not to mention the damage to containers as a misaligned spreader bounces off its side.
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Achieving the diamond standard: Conveying challenges with Dos Santos
Apr 07, 2010
Fifteen years ago, "going green" wasn't quite the popular phrase that it is today. However, that is when Joseph Dos Santos, President of Dos Santos International was presented with a challenge to go green like no other. The challenge was to use the least amount of space possible to process and separate one of Earth’s greatest treasure - diamonds. Canada's first completely underground diamond mine, Snap Lake was the motivation for the DSI Snake Sandwich Belt Conveyors in the Northwest Territories.
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New developments in continuous ship unloading
Mar 02, 2010
The Garant Feed Mills group, who since 1999, have had extensive experience working with a Flexiport unloader at their mill in Pöchlarn, Austria, on the Danube River, decided to install the same unloader type at another of their mills; in Aschach, Austria.
The new Flexiport, which has been incorporated with the latest technical developments, was delivered to Aschach, also on the Danube, and installed at the beginning of 2005 (see Figure 1).
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Achieving maximum productivity with older cranes
Feb 26, 2010
As ports face the continued push to reduce port of call mooring time, an overall productivity improvement may be necessary to remain competitive in the container shipping industry.
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The World’s first LNG onboard regasification port
Feb 09, 2010
February 20th 2007 saw the first ever flows of natural gas from a
liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship directly into the onshore natural
gas grid – the culmination of a remarkable 12 month project
to create the fastest and lowest cost LNG importation facility in
the world.
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Investing in the future: tackling the economic slowdown
Jan 22, 2010
The economic slowdown has undoubtedly offered a big challenge to the shipping industry, but those who have the foresight to plan ahead will be better prepared for when the industry does make a recovery.
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Effective storage tank management programme
Dec 16, 2009
Companies that store bulk liquids in aboveground storage tanks face the challenge of developing and maintaining a tank management programme. An effective tank management programme is necessary to ensure that tanks operate safely and are inspected and maintained on a regular basis in a cost-effective manner.
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Dry bulk terminal expansion or redesign?
Dec 10, 2009
Due to the high demand for energy and mineral resources many dry bulk terminals around the world are expanding and seriously increasing their capacity. One approach to expansion can simply be copying the existing facilities until the required capacity is reached. In this way however the terminal does not only lose the opportunity to utilise the developments made over the last decades on terminal design, it will also end up with a costly operation. In addition it may not be able to reach the environmental restrictions imposed on terminal operations nearby environmentally sensitive areas.
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Prolonging the life of your crane and your bank account
Dec 08, 2009
The speed and subsequent depth witnessed in the current economic slowdown has clearly presented the port industry with a wholly different range of decisions to ponder whilst formulating Capital expenditure budgets for 2010, and perhaps beyond. There has, as a result, been a marked shift from the purchase of new capital-intensive items such as cranes to meet growing volumes and replace aging equipment, by projects more akin with conserving cash.
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Automation – a case for the future
Nov 30, 2009
While the demand for designs of container terminals with part automation has increased significantly, some within the industry remain sceptical about the future of full automation. Despite the progress with system designs there is certainly a reluctance to commit to full automation and the use of automated Horizontal Transfer Equipment (HTE) – either AGVs or Automated Shuttle Carriers.
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Fast tracking fuel supply in Chile
Nov 24, 2009
Chile has a dependence on imported natural gas, which supplies a large proportion of their electricity generation. At present, gas imports are predominantly via pipeline from Argentina. However, in 2004 Argentina decided to reduce its gas exports to Chile, forcing a dependence on more expensive fuel oil to make up the difference whilst an increased hydroelectric capacity is developed.
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New bulk loaders for Bayóvar (Peru) and Port of Marseille
Nov 18, 2009
TAIM WESER, a Spanish company that specialises in latestgeneration bulk handling equipment and solutions, was recently awarded the contract to install conveyor belts and a ship loader for phosphate, with 3,500 t/h capacity, for the Bayóvar Port Terminal in Peru.
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Port of Helsinki, Vuosaari Harbour Center: Automatic Gate System
Nov 16, 2009
Visy Oy was selected as the gate technology provider for the Port of Helsinki, Vuosaari Harbour project – a massive undertaking which involved moving and combining two commercial port areas from the center of Helsinki to a new, single, location east of the city.
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Is yard automation getting easier?
Nov 13, 2009
ABB, formerly ASEA, has been actively supplying cranes and related equipment for over 100 years and has delivered electrical and automation equipment to more than 1,200 cranes of all types and in all parts of the world. ABB has and will supply automation and electrical equipment to a number of demanding automation projects, such as CTA, Hamburg, Euromax/Rotterdam, Hanjin and PNC in Korea and Kaohsiung and TPCT in Taiwan.
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Container handling alternatives: the benefits of sidelifters
Nov 03, 2009
There has been much discussion about the place in the industry for sidelifters. Why have sidelifters seen huge success and are in extensive use in some regions whilst still not even heard of elsewhere? Apart from the obvious benefits of the sidelifter service to shippers, packing containers safely at ground level, there are also many benefits to be had by container terminal operators. Traditional container handling equipment such as reach stackers, forklifts, straddle carriers, etc, can be expensive. There are purchase, setup, operational and maintenance costs.
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Workarounds: just say no!
Oct 30, 2009
Marine terminal operators have been searching for accurate Position Detection Systems (PDS) for about a decade and, while several types of solutions have been deployed (RFID/RTLS and DGPS at the top of the list), few, if any, have truly delivered the throughput gains, cost reductions, and process forensics operators expected.
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Latest technology in cargo handling attachments
Oct 28, 2009
Stevenel, based in Tampere, Finland is an engineering company who have, for the last 10 years, been designing and manufacturing attachments for general cargo for ports and industrial terminals. All of their products include CE-marking, thus, EU-directives are the basis for their engineering. Stevenel design and manufacture attachments solely for general cargo focussing on break bulk cargo.
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New paradigm on the lashing process in container ports
Oct 27, 2009
Currently, we are living in a rapidly changing and developing world in connection with port operations. In particular, port equipment is improving so rapidly, we need to redefine even the concept of container ports themselves. This technical progress is the primary concern of the container terminal operators.
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Chemical storage tank systems: good practice guide - Operation, inspection and maintenance: Part 2
Oct 26, 2009
Cleaning of chemical storage systems can be a hazardous activity, and is important for the long life of a system. Some good practice guidance on cleaning of systems is given below:
• Depending on the nature and scale of cleaning, specialist contractors may be required. This is particularly true for inside tanks which are classed as confined spaces, thus special training and apparatus are required.
• Specialist cleaning machinery is available for certain cleaning tasks such as machines for lowering into tanks and wall climbers.
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Port of Göteborg gets results with new staff and equipment planning system
Oct 21, 2009
The complexities in balancing the productivity of a terminal operation, in relation to the level of service required by its customers and the cost efficiencies required to stay competitive, demand a high level of decision support. Borrowing some capability from the airline and rail planning businesses can turn out to be a strong move.
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Calling for more stringent crane ‘tie-down’ procedures
Oct 20, 2009
With damaging hurricanes in the Atlantic, typhoons and cyclones in the Pacific, monsoons in the Indian, and random windstorms occuring anywhere, port equipment, premises and liability insurer, TT Club is strongly recommending that terminal operators urgently review their terminal emergency plans for dealing with high winds and in particular crane tie-down procedures.
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Clearer outlook with vapour recovery
Oct 15, 2009
Increased measures to reduce volatile organic compounds (VOC) emissions during the loading operations for crude oil, both offshore and onshore, are being required by the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT) and international environmental agreements.
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Continuous bulk material loading for all types of vessels
Oct 13, 2009
Recently, bulk material handling company Bedeschi was asked by Coeclerici Logistics, Italy to install some of its coal industry applications, in particular those applicable to coal conveying systems, to a plant in India. Bedeschi has been commissioned to provide:
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Optimising container terminals using simulation and emulation methodology: Part 2
Oct 12, 2009
A system working on the lowest level of detail does not consider the operation system the terminal uses. The capacity of a container terminal is limited by the capacity of the container stacking area and the quay. The latter is limited by its length and by the capacity of the ship-to-shore cranes available. The aim of such a system is to surmise the current point at which the terminal bottlenecks.
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Investing in the future: tackling the economic slowdown
Sep 04, 2009
The economic slowdown has undoubtedly offered a big challenge to the shipping industry, but those who have the foresight to plan ahead will be better prepared for when the industry does make a recovery. This year is a time for re-evaluating and transforming the industry in which we work. In my opinion, it is essential for companies to be forward thinking in order to survive this tough time and come out on the other side stronger.
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Crane drive and control systems: Part 2
Sep 01, 2009
The container transpor tation industr y has witnessed a remarkable growth over the last decade. Control system wise, the programmable logic controller (PLC) was the preferred solution for motion control and general interlocking. As technology evolved over the years, so have the cranes, which are now bigger, faster and more complex electrically.
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Common quay crane modifications
Aug 26, 2009
Crane modifications are often required to service larger vessels, increase productivity, allow for a different terminal operation, or reduce maintenance costs. Modifying existing cranes is quicker and often a more economical alternative than purchasing new cranes. Modifications to the crane’s geometry allow an existing crane to service larger vessels. The most common geometry modifications are increasing the lift height or increasing the outreach, backreach, or both.
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Offshore transshipment terminals: a valid alternative to port infrastructure
Aug 20, 2009
In the present world economic scenario, characterised by high uncertainty and market instability, the port sector is holding back expansion plans. These projects provide for huge investments, which are necessary for upgrading and building the new facilities required to accommodate the ocean going vessels trading worldwide, whose cargo carrying capacity has augmented to minimise the ocean freight impact.
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Optimising container terminals using simulation and emulation methodology: Part 1
Aug 19, 2009
Over the last 50 years simulation technology has found its way from technical applications to logistics. Due to the demands of high productivity and automation, as well as increasing vessel sizes, special computer systems for simulation and emulation have been developed for container terminals.
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Effective operations in ports
Aug 18, 2009
“Global logistics chain suffers port bottlenecks”, “Seaports struggling with increase in container vessel sizes”, “Citizen complaints over port neighbourhoods”...The above list of newspaper headlines could be prolonged endlessly, highlighting that obviously seaports have some technical and organisation problems to deal with.
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Research and development of automatic bulk cargo equipment in modern ports: Part 2
Aug 11, 2009
Part 1 introduced bulk grab ship unloaders and automatic and fully automatic bulk loading bucket wheel stacker-reclaimers, jointly developed by Shanghai Port, Shanghai Port Machinery Plant, ABB (China) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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No growth? Squeeze the lemon!
Aug 10, 2009
It appears that everything is coming to a standstill due to the economic panic all around. The reality of the here and now is a drop in container handling volume to levels of 2006/2007. Most terminals will end 2008 still at par with 2007 as the first nine months showed steady growth.
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Euromax: a new standard in container handling
Aug 07, 2009
The Euromax Terminal is situated at the north-westerly corner of the Maasvlakte, just around the corner from the entrance to the Rotterdam port. From the North Sea, container vessels can be moored at the new container terminal in no time at all and shipping traffic is not hampered by any restrictions whatsoever.
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Flexible material handling solutions
Jul 30, 2009
With two port sites in Terneuzen and Vlissingen near the Belgian border, the Dutch port operator Ovet B.V. is an important regional player in bulk materials handling. Two quays with a combined length of 2,400 metres are available, and four floating cranes and a mobile quay crane provide a total handling capacity of some 5,000 tonnes per hour.
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Integrated check-in and security system goes over above ISPS code compliance
Jul 29, 2009
The International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code makes the adoption of security and monitoring systems mandatory for both accessing ports and transiting through boarding areas.
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Modern interface between the TOS and the Crane Control System
Jul 28, 2009
A modern container terminal needs an interface between the Terminal Operating System (TOS) and the crane control system onboard the cranes. If the terminal includes fully automatic cranes, it is an absolute necessity to be able to send work orders directly from the TOS to the cranes.
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