The Virtual Terminal: Visualizing Automated Container Terminals

Automation in maritime container terminals is gaining momentum as the advantages in terms of total life cycle costs have become apparent in western countries. However, expertise and experience in the design, development and operation of automated terminals is still limited. Many stakeholders or actors are involved in the design process and the...

Polder Container Terminal

New ports are mostly constructed on low lying coastal land or in shallow coastal waters. The surface level of the land for port facilities is then raised to a level well above the highest water mark. This requires vast volumes of good quality fill material often dredged from the sea. Besides the cost of dredging, there is the environmental...

The use of a floating quay for container terminals

The increase of global shipping leads to competition between container terminals. In order to meet the demands of the shipping companies (service time < 24h.) innovation is necessary. A new indented berth layout is used at Amsterdam Container Terminals to achieve a berth productivity of 300 moves per hour. Since there is a scarcity of land...

Development of container handling in the Port of Rotterdam

During the last 60 years, the Port of Rotterdam has grown to be one of the major container ports in the world. The city of Rotterdam has changed from a fishing harbour to a Mainport in the last 600 years. The port facilities including the waterways, terminals and hinterland connections as well as the operating methods and handling techniques,...

Innovative Waterborne Logistics for Container Ports

A new developed and internationally patented type of harbour vessel, named Port Feeder Barge, can considerably improve the internal container logistics in many major container ports. The double ended and self propelled pontoon type vessel which has a loading capacity of 168 TEU is equipped with its own full scale container crane. The new type of...