Yang Ming Marine Transport has renovated its container yard in Taiwan’s Keelung port as part of the medium to long-term development of the facility.
In order to improve operating efficiency, old gantry machines were replaced with machines that have been certified by the American Bureau of Shipping and TUV Rheinland. The working height of the machines can reach 6+1 container stacks and can work on as many as 18 rows of containers from the ground level.
The machines can receive electricity through the pipeline, which reduces the risk of power transmission loss, a common occurrence with relay transformer stations that were used in the past. Piped electricity reduces the average energy consumption and carbon footprint of processing each hanging container.
In addition, to improve the operational efficiency of the Keelung container yard, the heavy container storage area was re-planned and rebuilt.
The rebuilt storage area has the withdrawal lane in the middle, reducing the moving distance of the gantry machine trolley, while speeding up the efficiency of withdrawal.
Container storage is located on the left and right sides of the driveway, and container floor mats are designed to cope with Keelung’s rainy environment. This avoids container storage in waterlogged areas, reducing the risk of cargo damage due to moisture.
Up to 2,160 TEU of containers can be stored, while 336 freezer sockets are installed for import and export and transshipment boxes.
The facility functions as Yang Ming’s container storage and transportation hub in northern Taiwan and facilitates container movements on the company’s Asia-US West Coast, Taiwan-China and Japan-Taiwan-Thailand services.
Martina Li
Asia Correspondent
