Containerterminal Altenwerder

The HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder ( CTA ) with the 1,400 -meter-long Ballinkai in the district Altenwerder of Hamburg since its opening in 2002, one of the world's most modern container terminals. It is part of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA ) ( 74.9 %) and Hapag -Lloyd AG ( 25.1%) and is located at Köhlbrand, a tributary of the Elbe, between Kattwyk bridge and Köhlbrandbrücke. The CTA is in addition to the Euro Gate Container Terminal Hamburg ( CTH ), HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB ) and the HHLA Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT ) is one of currently four container terminals in the Port of Hamburg.

The CTA also has its own container station for combined transport, the ' Combi - Trans Europa Terminal Hamburg ' ( KTH ). In seven parallel, each 700 meters long tracks trains of three gantry cranes are handled by turning cats. Right next to a freight center is established, which can use the station as well.

• 6.2.1 Specifications

• 6.3.1 Motor Data AGV 01-53
• 6.3.2 Motor Data AGV 54-84

• 6.4.1 Specifications

• 6.5.1 Specifications

Generally

The terminal is spread over an area of ​​1.1 million square meters and is designed annually in the final stage on the envelope of approximately 3 million TEUs. Currently, the capacity of 2.4 million TEUs.

At the same time the eastern, 1400 m long quay wall of the CTA, up to four large container ships, even post-Panamax ships are loaded and deleted. The depth at the berths is 16.7 m, the quay wall has a height of 7.5 m above sea level. NN. A total of 12 million cubic meters of sand were piled up, making a difference in height between the quayside and Elbgrund of 24 m was created.

Most of the envelope surface takes the center storage container with a capacity of 30,000 TEU, of which 2040 with connections for refrigerated container ( " reefer "). The camp is operated by crane 26 pairs and 86 Automatic guided vehicle (Automated Guided Vehicle, AGV ).

The western part of the CTA form the transfer stations for truck and the train specially built with seven tracks that allow a clearance of complete trains.

The special feature of the terminal is the almost fully automated process. The containers are virtually transported only over the quay wall and the side of the road with human help, all cranes and transport vehicles of the intermediate container storage are controlled by the central computer.

Planning and construction

The terminal is located on the territory of the former fishing village of Old Werder. The construction, or more precisely, the extension of the port, it was decided already in the 1950s by the Hamburg Parliament, before containers for bulk carriers were. By 1960, the city began Hamburg, buy land, 1973-1978 even expropriations were announced. Building on the acquired land were demolished immediately after signing the contract. However, it took until 1998 that the last inhabitants, worn down and under protest tasks.

For a long time the area for the expansion of the neighboring Hansa ports was provided, but the crisis in the German coal and steel industry in the 1970s was to break the originally forecasted turnover rates, so that the expansion plans were eventually dropped. Nevertheless, the depopulation of the village was continued, so that even a reserve area was then available for the later was planning of container terminals.

What remains are the only village church and graveyard, seen on aerial photographs as a green patch behind the terminal site.

The installed at CTA so-called super post -Panamax container cranes were manufactured in Shanghai at ZPMC. The 2,000 -ton bridges have been associated with a special ship by sea to Hamburg. One of the biggest challenges in the terminal planning and construction of which was the development of complex control and monitoring systems for numerous automated processes.

The path of a container by the CTA

The ship docks at one of four berths. One of the 14 two-trolley - container bridges takes care of the container. First, the crane operator transported in the main cat it to the lashing platform of the bridge, where workers lashing the compounds of the container, the twist locks, remove. The fully automatic envelope begins after another person sitting in the bridge supervision cabin, has spotted the container, checked and then entered into the computer system. As soon as one of the 86 automated vehicles ( AGV ) has provided on the land side of the bridge, the cat portal automatically loads to the container. Through an in -ground approved, consisting of about 10,000 points transponder network to find the leaderless AGV their way to the transmitted via radio destination, in addition they will be monitored via GPS. The surface upon which the AGV drive is locked for the safety of persons.

The AGV parked in front of one of the 26 bearing blocks (16,000 containers), where a gantry crane pair ( Double Rail Mounted Gantry - DRMG ) unloads the container for interim storage. Each block consists of 10 rows of 37 TEU places, at any place, four - are stacked containers - in the outer rows of five. The DRMG consists of two independently operating cranes, so that at the same time the water side can be operated with the AGV and the opposite side with railway and trucks. Due to their different size, both cranes can operate simultaneously over the entire block, the smaller crane travels just below the larger one by. If one of the made ​​, the operation of each block can still be maintained through the second crane.

On the back of the 26 bearing blocks each three tracks for release terminally own chassis and four lanes for trucks are for loading and unloading of trucks, the gantry cranes can be controlled manually by remote Expensive places inside the factory building, there is the clearance of the terminal internal chassis automated.

From this point, the transport routes to separate: If the containers are transported by truck, it stays on the chassis. If the container needs to be rotated for transport on the truck (doors forward - for security reasons or transportation of two 20 -foot containers ), this is done on the container rotation space at the southern end of the terminal. When transporting by rail, he is driven to the station. Once there it is shipped from one of four railway cranes, which are equipped with rotating cats, on the train. The transfer from the warehouse to the tracks take over terminal- own -trailers and tractors (currently 18 tractors and 250 trailers). From radio data terminals, the driver of the tractor, get their driving jobs within the CTA.

Before leaving the CTA, by rail or by road, possibly being done nor a control of the container through customs.

The possibility of feeder transport large amounts of cargo can be transported on or with smaller vessels up to 1000 TEU ( 20-foot containers), for example, in the Baltic Sea Region.

Personnel requirements

People are hardly involved in the transhipment of containers. The plant is highly automated; she considered the most advanced in the world. After the final 700 people will be employed on the CTA, including 80 persons in management ( controlling, clerk, secretary, etc.), 310 employees in the water-side and land-side cover as well as 33 employees at customs. Maintenance personnel - about 120 people - is provided by the subsidiary SCA (Service Center Altenwerder ).

A subsidiary of HHLA, HCCR ( Hamburg container and chassis repair), takes over with 90 employees reefer operation, the CTA empty warehouse and container repair. The remaining 80 employees are foreign service ( Lascher, etc.).

The high level of automation requires well-trained staff such as engineers to monitor the processes and system operation.

Customs clearance

The CTA is a Seezollhafen, he was outside the existing end of 2012 Hamburg free port. For this reason, the Customs Department has been established to inform customs of all customs-related goods movements in the terminal. A quick settlement goods is ensured by data communication, whereby the customs authorities may commence before the vessel's arrival check goods data and can take possible measures in advance.

Equipment

Container bridges

Fourteen super post - Panamax gantry cranes with double-trolley operation meet the incoming ships. The main cat takes over the semi-automated transportation from the ship to the lashing platform, which is located centrally on the bridge. The portal cat carries the container automatically from there ( lashing platform ) on an automated guided vehicle ( " EGM ").

Specifications

• Height of boom: 110 m
• Lifting height over crane rail: 38.5 m
• Countersinking depth below the crane rail: 23 m
• Useful water-side Projection: 61 m (22 rows of containers )
• Rated load to the pulley blocks: 63 t
• Net weight: about 2,000 t

Feeder container bridges

The CTA has a standard container bridge that takes the envelope for feeder vessels. This bridge is significantly smaller and has only a cat. The clearance of feeder vessels is facilitated by a lower lifting height of the bridge.

Specifications

• Lifting height over crane rail: 19.8 m
• Countersinking depth below the crane rail: 20 m
• Useful water-side radius: 28 m (8 rows of containers )
• Usable land-based projection: 8.5 m
• Rated load to the pulley blocks: 63 t

Automated Guided Vehicles ( AGV )

The AGV ( Automatic guided vehicle ) are used for driverless transport between the bridges and the container stock. The AGV traffic area is approximately 1,400 m long and 100 m wide. Manufacturers of these vehicles is the company Gottwald Port Technology, a subsidiary of Demag Cranes who also delivered two Battery AGV for testing at the CTA 2011.

Currently, two AGV variants are in use: AGV 01-53, diesel-hydraulic drive AGV 54-84, diesel-electric drive, AGV 58 and 72 in addition with Blue Tec

Two of the AGV with diesel-electric drive were rebuilt vehicles with purely battery - electric drive. This drive for testing since the spring of 2011. Battery replacement is done automatically in a battery exchange station ( BWS). There, a spare battery pack is ever charged, wherein the second is in the vehicle.

Motor data AGV 01-53

• Manufacturer: Daimler -Benz
• Power: 260 kW
• Tank: 1200 L
• Travel time ( with full tank ): about 48 hours
• Capacity: 12 L
• Cylinder: V 6
• Fuel consumption: 15-20 L / h

Motor data AGV 54-84

• Manufacturer: Volvo
• Power: 260 kW
• Tank: 1200 L
• Travel time ( with full tank ): about 55 hours
• Capacity: 12 L
• Cylinder: 6 in series
• Fuel consumption: 12-16 L / h

Double Rail Mounted Gantry Cranes ( DRMG )

The automatically operated cranes operate the bearing blocks on rails. The two operate a bearing block. By creating different heights they can independently operate a block. These drive the cranes forth under or over each other.

Specifications

• Chassis length: 15 m
• Load capacity: 42 t

Railway cranes

For loading and unloading of rail wagons on the seven lying parallel tracks of Combined Trans Europa Terminal Hamburg ( KTH ), four gantry cranes available. In addition to 20'-, 30'-, 40'- and 45' - containers and swap-bodies and semi-trailers can be handled.

Specifications

• Projection bearing side: 15,5 m
• Projection KLV- page: 18.3m
• Height: 24.6 m
• Load capacity: 42.8 t
• Net weight: about 500 t

Control software

A new operating concept was created specifically for the complex processes of the Great devices and their communication. Device for the transport and control programs have been developed which allow a real-time optimization for all transport operations of the terminal. The core of the software, the terminal control software; they integrated the individual software components, usually the reliable computer programs. The software was implemented in Java. During the ongoing commissioning of the software packages are integrated into the system and tested under real conditions on the heart and kidneys.

The software is divided into several areas:

House developments HHLA ( on Sun Solaris servers )

• Common ( Application Server: BEA WebLogic, JMS: SwiftMQ )
• CBS (container base system, Java)
• ATLS ( Automatic Terminal Logistics System)
• PS ( planning system interfaces with Navis SPARCS )
• CBS (container base system, InterSystems Caché, VMS Alpha )

Purchase systems:

• AGV management system (from TBA (ex Gottwald Port Technology ), Suse Linux 10 )
• HTLS ( inland terminal logistics system, INFORM SyncroTESS, Sun Solaris )
• FMDS (error detection and diagnostic system ( gluIT ), Microsoft Windows 2000)
• SPARCS ( Navis )