Port Cargo Handling and Mobile

Equipments
• Port Cargo Handling and Mobile Equipments:
Portainers, Types of portainers, Operations. Forklift
Trucks. Straddle Trucks, Trailer spotting tractors,
Approved Trucks
• Duties of operator
• Unit Handling conveyors, Chute Conveyor, Bucket
conveyor, Vacuum suction blowers
RAIL MOUNTED QUAY CRANE (RMQC) or
PORTAINERS
 Rail Mounted Quay Cranes (RMQC) or Portainers are specialized gantry
cranes and container handling machines.
 An RMQC travels on rails to lift and stack 20 or 40' containers in the yard
area.
 The container is lifted by a spreader attached to cables.
 Rail mounted cranes come in a variety of models with different spans and
overhangs.
 These cranes are specially designed for intensive container stacking due to
its automatic and less need for human handling .
 Compared to the rubber tyred gantry crane (RTG), the RMQC has the
advantages of being driven by electrical power , cleaner , bigger lifting
capacity , and higher gantry travelling speed with cargo .
 Rail-Mounted Gantry cranes are particularly effective for rail / road
transhipments of large quantities of containers.
 Care must be taken to cease cargo operations and house cranes during
strong winds as they may tend to run and can cause damage to the crane
and other port property.
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There are two common types of container handling
gantry crane: 
High profile, where the boom is hinged at the waterside
of the crane structure and lifted in the air to clear the
ships for navigation, and low profile, where the boom
is shuttled toward and over the ship to allow the
trolley to load and discharge containers.
Low-profile cranes are used where they may be in the
flight path of aircraft, such as where a container
terminal is located close to an airport.
The type of crane selected in container terminal design
process is determined by the design vessel and local
environment.
These cranes are also known by their sizes
Smaller sizes: Smaller container cranes, such as straddle
carriers or RTG, are used at railway sidings to transfer
containers from flatcars and well cars to semi-trailers or
vice versa. Both the rolling stock and the trailers may pass
under the base. Smaller container cranes are also used
at break-of-gauge transloading facilities.
Panamax: A Panamax crane can fully load and unload
containers from a Panamax class container ship capable of
passing through the Panama Canal (190 ft (57.91 m)limit in
air draft, 12–13 containers wide).
Post-Panamax: A "post-Panamax" crane can load and unload
containers from a container ship too large (too wide) to
pass through the Panama Canal(normally about 18
containers wide).
Super-post-Panamax :
The largest modern container cranes are classified as "super-post-Panamax"
(for vessels of about 22 or more containers wide).
A modern container crane capable of lifting two 20-foot (6.1 m) long
containers at once (end to end) under the telescopic spreader will
generally have a rated lifting capacity of 65 MT.
Some new cranes have a 120-tonne load capacity, enabling them to lift up to
four 20-foot (6.1 m) or two 40-foot (12 m) containers.
Cranes capable of lifting six 20-foot containers have also been designed.
Post-Panamax cranes weigh approximately 800–900 MT, while the newer-
generation super-post-Panamax cranes can weigh 1,600–2,000 MT.
Super Post-Panamax Quay Cranes of Doosan make are equipped to handle
safe working load of 41 MTs (single) / 65 MTs (twin) / 85 MTs (underhook)
and has an outreach of 23 rows across the vessel.
These cranes can handle the largest container vessel floating in the world
today.
The largest Super-post-Panamax cranes have an outreach of 25 container
rows.
A forklift (also called lift truck, jitney, fork truck, fork
hoist, and forklift truck) is a powered industrial
truck used to lift and move materials over short
distances
A typical counterbalanced forklift contains the following
components:
• Truck frame;
• Counterweight;
• Cab;
• Overhead guard;
• Power source;
• Tilt cylinders;
• Mast;
• Carriage;
• Load Backrest;
• Tires & Attachments - Some attachments include side-shifters,
slip-sheet attachments, carton clamps, multipurpose clamps,
rotators, fork positioners, carpet poles, pole handlers,
container handlers and roll clamps.
RUBBER TYRED GANTRY CRANE (RTG CRANE)
Rubber Tyred Gantry Crane (RTG crane) (also Transtainer) also known as
Straddle Carriers is a mobile gantry crane used in intermodal operations
to ground or stack containers.
Inbound containers are stored for future pickup by drayage trucks, and
outbound are stored for future loading onto vessels.
RTGs typically straddle multiple lanes, with one lane reserved for
container transfers.
 Advantage: its mobility gives a rubber tyred gantry crane wide appliance
 Being mobile, RTGs are often powered by Diesel generator systems
(gensets) of 100 to 600 kW.
 Due to the lack of an electrical grid to dump energy when containers are
being lowered they often have large resistor packs to rapidly dissipate
the energy of a lowering or decelerating container.
 Aside from the intermodal industry, RTGs also are extensively used in
industry.
 Applications include erecting large unbalanced structures, assembling
large manufacturing components, and positioning pipelines.
• A terminal tractor, known in the United States as a shunt truck, spotter truck, spotting
tractor, yard truck, yard dog, yard goat, yard horse, yard jockey or mule, is a semi-
tractor intended to move semi trailers within a cargo yard, warehouse facility, or
intermodal facility, much like a switcher locomotive is used to position railcars.
 A Reach Stacker is a vehicle used for handling intermodal cargo
containers in small terminals or medium-sized ports.
 Reach stackers are able to transport a container short distances very
quickly and pile them in various rows depending on its access.
 Reach stackers have gained ground in container handling in most
markets because of their flexibility and higher stacking and storage
capacity when compared to forklift trucks.
 Using reach stackers, container blocks can be kept 4-deep due to
second row access.
The Crane Operator is responsible for operating a mobile crane to lift,
move, position, and reposition loads.
 The Operator controls crane functions by depressing buttons and foot
pedals as well as manipulating levers.
 The Operator will be required to unload crane accessories from trailers or
support vehicles.
 The Operator receives direction from riggers and/or site supervision via
verbal or hand signals to determine required load movement.
 The Operator must also be certified, and will be required to perform pre-
and post-trip inspections along with daily and monthly equipment
inspections.
 Operators also follow appropriate safety procedures and maintain logs of
vehicle repair status and working hours .
 Operator typically works under direct supervision and is expected to
work long hours with frequent sitting, standing, moving, and climbing.
 The Operator is subject to possible exposure to extreme year round
outdoor environmental conditions, and may also be subject to working
weekends and holidays