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Container Handling in Automated Yard Blocks pp 11–36Cite as

Container Terminal Environment

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Abstract

The three main operational areas of a container terminal, namely the waterside, yard and landside area, are briefly sketched in order to enable a basic understanding of the processes relevant for the analysis in subsequent chapters. Main planning problems, which occur in the three operational areas, are introduced and described, respectively. Coming from a general view on the entire terminal operations, a closer look is taken at the yard block level being the operational area relevant for the research statement of the work. Here, basic terminology is defined and different yard block layouts, the corresponding yard crane systems and the implications for handling operations and yard crane movement are described. Within this overview, the focus is put on automation leading to a brief statement and comparison of variants of automated stacking cranes with single and multiple cranes per block. As the work is motivated from the informational context of arrival and retrieval times of containers, the properties of time information about containers at the waterside and landside are identified and possible systems of vehicle arrival management for estimating the time information are conveyed. Following from this, the problem environment of the research study is formulated.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The quay is the decoupling point at the waterside of manual quay crane operation and the AGVs.

  2. 2.

    TEU – Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit is the standard measurement for containers according to their length of 20 ft (6.058 m) (Intersecretariat Working Group on Transport Statistics 2003).

  3. 3.

    Stacks marked in white indicate that this stack is empty of any containers.

  4. 4.

    The transshipment share gives the share of containers that are delivered to and retrieved from the waterside.

  5. 5.

    The realised departure time is a function of the realised arrival and berthing time. However, the ETD is already specified within the VCP prior to the realised vessel arrival.

  6. 6.

    The term ‘Vehicle Booking System (VBS)’ may also be encountered in the literature (Davis 2009)

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Covic, F. (2019). Container Terminal Environment. In: Container Handling in Automated Yard Blocks. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05291-1_2

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