The transparency of location and status of loadings and load carriers is particularly important for efficient warehouse management on seaport terminals. Today detection of load carrier movement processes and modified status information is insufficiently supported by software systems. An automated IT-based load carrier management system offers a wide range of opportunities for tracking and tracing positions and status information of loadings and load carriers. A permanent monitoring of changes regarding location and status allows the usage of innovative stock-keeping strategies, search time reduction, decrease of relocation processes and overall an improvement of the traffic flow on the seaport terminal area. In relation to globally increasing trade flows of goods the role of sea harbours for unobstructed cargo handling is gaining in importance. The amount of goods traded via the German sea ports alone increased from 224 million tons in 1999 to 302 million tons in 2006. The sea traffic prognosis passed by the German federal government in May 2007 forecasts a continuing growth of cargo shipping from German sea harbours to reach 759 million tons in 2025. Next to container traffic the Ro-Ro (Roll on / Roll off) traffic in particular is regarded as a main driver of this development with high potential for growth. The mentioned prognosis forecasts that Ro-Ro traffic of the German Baltic range sea harbours will grow over-proportionally with average growth rates of 4.8% and thusly increase by more than a factor of three from 27 million tons in 2004 to 71.7 million tons in 2025 (Zentralverband der deutschen Seehafenbetriebe 2007). In order to successfully manage the challenges related to this growth, next to increasing harbour capacities by expanding harbour infrastructure and connection to the hinterland, better use of existing capacities is required. In this conext process improvements using intelligent storing position management systems and automatic freight or load carrier identification systems have been proposed (Oppel 2007).
Load carrier management on Ro-Ro terminals
Ladungsträgermanagement für Roll-on/Roll-off-Terminals
2008
6 Seiten, 3 Bilder, 8 Quellen
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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