EP1437315A1 - Container terminal for the transfer of containers between ultra-large container carriers and smaller units - Google Patents

Abstract

An inventory tracking software system (ITSS)-terminal comprising two fingerpiers at a maximum parallel distance of up to 70 metres and length 450 metres at a water depth of 18 metres with crane tracks and 5 high power container loading bridges spanning the whole terminal, and anchored fingerpier guides for locomotives for docking of very large containers.

Description

• den direkten Containerumschlag zwischen zukünftigen übergroßen Containerschiffen und kleineren Schiffseinheiten
• ohne kostenintensive Containerbewegungen über Land nach herkömmlichen Feederoperationen
• mittels neu konzipierter und zu bauender Terminals mit besonderen Anlegeplätzen und technischen Vorrichtungen
• bei Vermeiden sehr hoher Investitionskosten für alternative Infrastrukturen.

The developed transport and handling system includes

• direct container handling between future oversized container ships and smaller ship units
• without costly container movement over land after conventional feeder operations
• by means of newly designed and to be built terminals with special berths and technical devices
• avoiding very high investment costs for alternative infrastructures.

container growth

• einer Verdoppelung in 10 Jahren
• ca. 300 - 500% über 25 - 30 Jahre
• einer Anpassung der Containerschiffsgrößen
• einer verschieden prognostizierten Einführung zukünftiger Supergrößen bis zu 20.000 TEU

können nahezu alle Containerhäfen dieser Welt gegenwärtig die zukünftigen übergroßen Containerschiffe nicht aufnehmen und erfordern sehr große Investitionen für den Neubau und Ausbau überdimensionaler Hafen- und Inland-Infrastrukturen. Against the background of container growth forecast

• a doubling in 10 years
• about 300 - 500% over 25 - 30 years
• an adaptation of container ship sizes
• a differently predicted introduction of future super sizes up to 20,000 TEU

Almost all container ports in the world can not currently accommodate the future oversized container ships and require very large investments for the construction and expansion of oversized port and inland infrastructures.

ITSS concept

• diese Investitionen niemals zuvor bekannten Ausmaßes zu vermeiden
• und auf der Strecke der Hauptladungsströme im Pendelverkehr Europa - Ostasien - Westküste Nordamerika
• größtmögliche Containerschiffe bis zu 18.000 TEU in Konsortien mit 5-10 Anlaufhäfen operieren zu können.

The ITSS - Integrated Terminal Ship System enables

• to avoid these investments of unprecedented proportions
• and on the route of the main cargo flows in commuter traffic Europe - East Asia - West Coast North America
• to operate the largest possible container ships up to 18,000 TEU in consortia with 5-10 ports of call.

The size limit with adjustments in the Suez Canal refers to the water depths in the Malacca Strait.

• in diesen den herkömmlichen größten Containerhäfen der Welt und Handelszentren vorgelagerten ITSS-Terminals
• an tiefgang- und tidenunabhängigen und wettergeschützten Küstenplätzen (in Nordeuropa - im Mittelmeer - vor Singapore - China - Japan/Korea - San Franzisko und Los Angeles)
• die zukünftigen übergroßen Containerschiffe vergleichbar nach herkömmlicher Feederoperation abzulöschen bzw. nachzuladen.

The concept is

• in these ITSS terminals upstream of the world's largest container ports and commercial centers
• in low-tide and tide-independent and weather-protected coastal areas (in Northern Europe - in the Mediterranean - in front of Singapore - China - Japan / Korea - San Francisco and Los Angeles)
• the future oversized container ships similar to conventional feeder operation to extinguish or reload.

The transshipment takes place directly without container land movements on the terminal between the Large container ships and the one for each Further transport adapted differently sized Feeder ships.

Technical description of the ITSS terminal and more technical devices

• zwei 450 m langen Fingerpiers,
• in einem Parallelabstand von maximal 70 m
• bei Wassertiefen von 18 m,
• um Containerschiffe zukünftiger Übergrößen eindocken zu können.

The terminal consists of

• two 450 m long fingerpiers,
• in a parallel distance of a maximum of 70 m
• at water depths of 18 m,
• to be able to dock container ships of future oversizes.

• neben normaler Schlepperunterstützung am Heck
• über jeweils 4 Festmachlokomotiven pro Fingerpier erreicht,
• die mit auf den Piers verankerten Gleisen fest verbunden sind und die Großcontainerschiffe, vergleichbar mit den Festmachlokomotiven in den Schleusen des Panama-Kanals, auf engstem Raum mit Minimalabständen präzise in die jeweilige Position ziehen.

The intended very fast docking and undocking over today's docking maneuvers will

• in addition to normal tractor support at the rear
• reached via each 4 mooring locomotives per finger pier,
• which are firmly connected with tracks anchored on the piers and which, like the mooring locomotives in the locks of the Panama Canal, precisely draw the large container ships in the narrowest spaces with minimum distances precisely into the respective position.

• die Kranschienen untergebracht, auf denen fünf den gesamten Terminal einschließlich die Schiffe quer überspannende Hochleistungs-Containerladebrücken stehen und fahren
• und mit zwei Kranhäusern und Hebevorrichtungen das gleichzeitige Laden und Löschen nach beiden Seiten erlauben.

On the fingerpiers are beyond

• The crane rails are accommodated on which five stand and drive the high-capacity container loading bridges across the entire terminal, including the ships
• and with two crane houses and lifting devices allow simultaneous loading and unloading on both sides.

The loading and unloading operations by IT-supported Jam planning is made possible by each precise Move the feeder ships according to intended Container bays by the after applying the large container ships on the side outer tracks changing mooring locomotives takes place firmly with stay connected to the feeder vessels and, if necessary be operated unmanned electronically controlled can.

The 16 m wide fingerpiers allow independent of the intended direct envelope if necessary limited prestacking or even the inclusion of Rail tracks, if a track connection to predetermined infrastructure.

Rationalization / Savings

1. Very high investment amounts in the billions for the new construction and expansion of oversized port and Inland infrastructures (various modes of transport) can be omitted and on the construction of ITSS terminals be limited.

2. Traditional overall infrastructures for smaller ones Ports used by today's larger container ships no longer be started for draft reasons can and will be cut off, become one further use.

3. Restrict the future large container ships m.E. on the clearance in the offshore coast ITSS terminals and avoid that Time-consuming and sometimes risky maneuvering on river areas and in shallow waters.

4. Draft-independent and tide-independent ITSS terminals improve a secure timetable and reduce operating costs accordingly.

5. Direct container handling without land movements on the terminal reduces loading and unloading Terminal costs drastically.

6. The shipping system costs by unit price on the Overseas routes reduce to "Economy of Scale "and faster round trip times by approx. 20-25% per slot (container space).

Joint Operating

• mit gleichzeitigem Laden und Löschen für verschiedene Weitertransporte
• und der Koordination unterschiedlicher Feederschiffe

wird innerhalb eines Konsortiums oder einer Fahrplangemeinschaft

• das Operating von einem Technischen Tonnage Centre
• auf der Basis eines Operations Manual
• nach einem Operating Agreement
• weltweit zentral durchgeführt

und mit Branch Offices

• in den Regionen Europa, Ostasien und Nordamerika dezentral kontrolliert,
• da die Stauplanung für Lade- und Löschhäfen koordiniert werden muss.

Because of the complex operations

• with simultaneous loading and deleting for various onward transports
• and the coordination of different feeder ships

becomes within a consortium or a timetable community

• the Operating of a Technical Tonnage Center
• on the basis of an Operations Manual
• after an operating agreement
• carried out centrally worldwide

and with branch offices

• decentrally controlled in the regions of Europe, East Asia and North America,
• since the stowage planning for loading and unloading ports must be coordinated.

The Tonnage Center is powered by a Steering Committee (delegates of the individual lines) controls from where the commercial and general requirements of Infuse lines.

Avoided environmental impact

• Ohne zusätzliche Belastung der Umwelt durch den Aufbau neuer Infrastrukturen einerseits
• sowie den Verzicht auf das Ausbaggern der Flussläufe andererseits

werden Container umweltfreundlich weitmöglichst auf dem Wasserwege tief in das Inland transportiert. The ITSS system completely resolves the conflict of interest between economics and ecology in this area.

• Without additional burden on the environment by building new infrastructures on the one hand
• and the abandonment of the dredging of the river courses on the other

Containers are transported as environmentally friendly as possible by water to deep inland.

Combined ITSS operations with conventional container operation

1. With rail connection and pontoons as "fall back position"
More railroad tracks on the fingerpiers, which converge in a rail track at the head end, can be used to load limited railroad cars in addition to the feeder operations. Here, too, the mooring locomotives are used to haul the railway wagons, which are put together in trains on the railways above the fingerpiers.
Pontoons with dimensions of 220 x 35 m and a capacity of approx. 1500 - 1600 TEU in Blockstow serve as an alternative for any logistical interruptions.
The same applies to delayed arrival of a Feeder ship or for a limited chassis operation.

2. Flexible ITSS and shore-side operation over pontoons
For this operation, the entire terminal will be extended by a further 450 m in a straight-line continuation of the fingerpierge boundaries, including crane and locomotive rails on topped up and fixed space. In addition to the operative areas, a container stack with a receiving and delivery area of 31,500 sqm (450 x 70 m).
A maximum of 2 x 2 pontoons (each measuring 220 x 35 m and a block stow capacity of up to 1600 TEU) can be loaded and unloaded alternately to the feeder vessels and serve as a prestack, which can only be used in individual maneuvers once between stacking area and lying positions of the large container ship and vv with the mooring locomotives is recuperated and thus replaces all horizontal container movements with the associated investment in space and equipment of a conventional container terminal.
The container loading bridges can be alternately used or supplemented after the large container ship has been deposited on the stack.

3.Mixed ITSS feeder operation and onshore conventional container loading
For harbors with non-exclusive feeder operations (see also the combined and flexible ITSS operation of the previous descriptions) and a larger shore-based catchment area, the terminal is confined to a normal container pier and only one finger pier 70 meters apart.
Up to 50% of the total volume can be handled directly with feeder vessels in ITSS operation, while the remaining volume is moved after conventional land-side operation and nearly halves corresponding investments of a comparable terminal.
Simultaneous ITSS and shore-side operations with ITSS high-performance containerized bridges will far exceed all conventional handling capabilities.

Claims (7)

The ITSS terminal consists of two fingerpiers in a maximum parallel Distance up to 70 m and a respective length of 450 m at a water depth of 18 m with crane tracks and 5 high capacity container loading bridges spanning the entire terminal. The fingerpiers also use anchored tracks for 2 x 4 locomotives Docking the oversized container ships and for moving the feeder ships at the loading operations after stowage planning on. The ITSS Termimal enables the handling of future oversized container ships (up to 18,000 TEU) without depth restriction and tidal dependence. Very high investment for the construction of otherwise required oversized Infrastructures for ports and inland (various transport networks) are eliminated. The existing infrastructures of smaller ports with domestic connections can be used for Feeder ships continue to be used. Direct container handling avoids expensive container movements over land corresponding costs after conventional feeder operations. Combined ITSS operations with conventional container operation. Flexible mixed forms with landside operation, rail connection and pontoons.

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