The Great North Three storage Yard covers an area of 1.837 million square meters, can be stacked 230,000 TEU, and the annual storage capacity is about 150,000 TEU. If these boxes were lined up end to end and you drove on top of them, it would take about nine hours! The reason why so many of these block-like containers are so neat is that there is a coding system that makes these boxes "home."
It can also be said that in the yard of the container terminal, each box has its own ID, which is the "box".
The controller of the pier and the gantry crane driver rely on this "ID" to accurately locate a box in the pile of thousands of boxes, and command and lift.
If you still think you don't understand, then let's break it down into 5 steps to talk about it in detail
The first step, the whole yard, divided by "zone"
According to the order of berths, each berth corresponds to a zone. If berth 1 corresponds to Zone 1, berth 2 corresponds to Zone 2... , as shown in the picture:
In the second step, each area is divided into "blocks"
For example, Zone 5, in the order of sea side to land side, are 5-1, 5-2,...... If you don't finish counting to 10, use 5-A, 5-B,...
The third step is to divide each piece into shells.
The English is BAY, corresponding to the BAY of the shipping space. By convention, odd numbers indicate the placement of 20-foot boxes and even numbers indicate the placement of 40-foot boxes. The text is too abstract, or look at the picture to speak:
The number with a red ring is to indicate the actual container position of this box block
Step 4: Each shell is divided into columns
Each bay generally has 6 columns, starting from the side near the driveway, respectively, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 columns, find a bay box for you to see:
Step 5: Each column is divided into "layers"
