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Continuing Congestion in LA & Long Beach Ports
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A tied up ship is like a train sitting in the yard; It isn't making any money! <br /> <br />The Hanjin terminal can handle at least three ships at once and has 12 cranes. <br /> <br />For comparison, Seattle's Terminal Five has three berths and five cranes, Terminal 18 has five berths and eight cranes, so Hanjin is not a small facility. <br /> <br />The bottleneck is unloading/loading the ship. Each container movement requires precision positioning by the crane operator on each end of the move. Each box can weigh approx. 30 tons so they must be handled gently and carefully to protect it and equipment and people in the area. Dropping 30 tons too hard on a trailer will break springs and axles and blowout tires, not to mention the problems of having a container fall over on its side. <br /> <br />There are a whole host of other problems depending on whether they are running a wheeled or grounded operation. In either case there must be a clear path for the transport equipment from the ship to the holding/sorting area so that pretty much rules out any conveyors. And a conveyor that could handle a 30 ton container would not look at all like a baggage conveyor that only needs to handle a 100 pounds or so. And you can't just dump the box on the carousel for the trucker to pick up! [:)] <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
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