Fair enough, I was thinking of terminals one step smaller where reachstackers or straddle carriers directly drive to and from the quay. On bigger terminals it’s a much more interlinked process indeed.
This is a small container port with a two lane access road. Not much traffic. No automation.
Container stacks are only two high, three high at most.
Driver is led through stacks of containers until they find the one they want to pick up. After some yelling, someone driving a stacker removes the container from the top of the one they want, then loads
the desired container onto the truck chassis.
Although there's one container ship at quayside, no loading or unloading seems to be happening.
Yep, that's more my class of customers. The height limitation is probably because of the gantry crane. In my experience having the truck driver follow the reachstacker is kind of uncommon, you'd ideally either tell the truck driver where to go from the gate, or just have the stacker drive across the terminal. This seems like the worst of both worlds. Perhaps a union or regulation thing about minimizing driving around with a reachstacker holding a box?
Fascinating business nonetheless, this is definitely something different than I'm used to over in NL/BE. Thanks for sharing!
See https://youtu.be/in2Q1KgqVIQ?si=7kzBKQGtrXyAbZEi