* California - Long Beach automated terminal expects fastest harbor truck turns
-- Truck turn times at the Middle Harbor container terminal in Long Beach will improve greatly when the automated facility receives its first vessel April 7 because truck traffic will be completely separated from vessel operations, the company’s top executive said... Middle Harbor will be the port’s signature terminal and, along with the TraPac facility in Los Angeles, the most highly-automated container terminal in North America. Phase one will officially open on April 7, with the second and third phases scheduled for 2017 and 2019. At full buildout, the 304-acre terminal will have an annual throughput capacity of 3.3 million 20-foot-equivalent units. The entire Port of Long Beach last year handled about 7 million TEUs... The key to marine terminal automation, as far as truckers are concerned, is that street trucks travel only a short distance beyond the entry gate and they therefore do not mix with the dozens of yard tractors that move containers from the vessel to the container stacks on the water side of the facility... In an automated terminal such as Middle Harbor, container stacks are positioned perpendicular to the vessel. Ship-to-shore cranes place the containers on automated guided vehicles, which deliver the containers to the waterside of the stack. Automated stacking cranes move the containers into the stacks, and later deliver the containers to street trucks on the gate side of the stacks... Appointment systems are a highly controversial issue at major gateways across the country. Truckers say it is difficult to operate within the designated windows because of terminal congestion, roadway congestion and the ad-hoc closing of sections of a terminal. Nevertheless, terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach say they need appointments in order to better plan and manage their labor and equipment needs each day, so by the end of this year 10 of the 13 container terminals in the harbor will have mandatory appointment systems...
(Photo: The Middle Harbor at the Port of Long Beach) -- Long Beach, CAL, USA - JOC, by Bill Mongelluzzo - Feb 11, 2016Labels: transport and logistics news, trucking industry news USA
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