Robotic CYs grab the headlines, but semi-automation has also gathered pace in the past few years.
Robotisation projects for container yards (CYs) such as Patrick Brisbane (robot straddle carriers), TCB Nagoya (RTGs), Patrick Port Botany (intermodal yard), Busan East, HHLA Burchardkai, Euromax Rotterdam, Antwerp Gateway and AMPT Portsmouth rightly attract considerable attention, but semi-automation of “conventional” CYs to relieve RTG drivers of some tasks has already caught on in a bigger way....
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