Sentence examples for port container from inspiring English sources

The Khalifa Port container yard is fully automated, with a control center that resembles an air traffic control tower.

The Port of Singapore Authority operates six gateways (Jurong port, Container Terminal, Keppel, Telok Ayer, Sembawang, and Pasir Panjang wharves) that provide facilities for vessels ranging from oceangoing liners to lighters.

Automation of handling equipment is a current trend in port container terminal.

In port container terminals, the scheduling of quay cranes (QCs) for a container vessel is one of the most critical operations.

Significant progress has been made in the last decade in introducing automation and advanced information and decision technologies to freight terminals, port container terminals in particular (e.g.,[10, 2]).6.

At the new port, containers can be transferred straight to warehouses, with the cargo leaving in smaller loads going directly to the south-east's shops.

Comparing 1996 with 1991, the cost of port containers went down by 67%, electricity fell by 26%, water and sewage disposal by around 20%, postal services by 30%, sea transportation by 43%.

A network of river ports, container ports, airports and highways has grown at a staggering rate (see map).Much of the delta today resembles Taiwan a generation ago, says Arthur Kroeber, an editor of the China Economic Quarterly, a research publication.

Given a set of port-to-port container shipment demands with delivery deadlines, the liner shipping company aims to design itineraries of portcalls, deploy ships on these itineraries and determine how to transport containers with the deployed ships in order to maximize its total profit.

In terms of the cost aspects of ports, container handling charges were considered to be significant, as they represent the major portion of port costs.

"You can see and understand the businesses involved — for example, ships come into the port, unload containers, reload containers and leave," she said.