Digital transformation for shipping container terminals using automated container code recognition

A Simulation Model for Automated Container Terminals

In order to accommodate the growing intercontinental container transport, port facilities have to be up-scaled drastically. The challenge is to develop facilities that can handle a new generation of ships, the jumbo container vessels, with a capacity of 8,000 TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit) or more. The total in-port time to serve these jumbos is set at 24 hours. This amounts to almost double...

Simulating Dispatching Strategies for Automated Container Terminals

An automated vision system for container-code recognition

Automatic container-code recognition is of great importance to the modern container management system. Similar techniques have been proposed for vehicle license plate recognition in past decades. Compared with license plate recognition, automatic container-code recognition faces more challenges due to the severity of nonuniform illumination and invalidation of color information. In this paper, ...

Improving Quay Transport on Automated Container Terminals

In order to accommodate the growth in intercontinental container transport, port facilities have to be up-scaled drastically. One of the major challenges is to increase the capacity of the marine operation on a container terminal. In this study the model of a quay transport system using automated guided vehicles (AGVs) is used to deduce logistic principles for the design of a terminal layout an...

Automated Technologies in Maritime Container Terminals

The purpose of this article is to investigate the potentials of implementing an integrated Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) and Automated Guided Vehicle System (AGVS) in maritime container terminals. We first define the main components of the proposed configuration and justify the potential impacts of each and that of the integrated system. A 3D simulation (and animation) model is ...