CTA to implement ‘Dual Cycle’ by the end of the year
HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA) ready to introduce combined loading and discharging system for ship dispatching
The highly automated HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA) is about to enter a new era. By the end of the year, the CTA will have implemented a combined loading and discharging system for ship dispatching. The handling procedure called ‘Dual Cycle’ will be used also in terms of transport on the site. In doing so, CTA assumes a pioneering role.
No way for nothing – that is the principle behind Dual Cycle. In traditional ship dispatching there are many empty trips, because ships are first discharged and then loaded. To put it simply, a container gantry crane first lifts a container from the ship and then puts it on land on an automated transporter (AGV) that brings the container to the storage block. Then the container gantry crane moves back to the ship without load to discharge the next container.
With the Dual Cycle these unnecessary empty trips are omitted. Because after putting the container on the AGV on land, the crane on its way back to the ship picks up another container that is loaded onto the ship. This way with two movements of the container gantry crane, two boxes are transported. In the conventional method, the crane performs the same action – that is the discharging and loading of two containers – in four moves. Thus Dual Cycle makes for a significant higher level of productivity.
Since January, the CTA has already been successfully testing Dual Cycle. By the end of the year the implementation of combined loading and discharging cycles should be complete. This will make the CTA the first terminal in the world that uses Dual Cycle not just at the container gantry crane, but also during transport between container gantry crane and block storage.
Quelle: LogEastics
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