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Nil Guler

Abstract

Containerisation is still spreading all over the world and the containerisation requirements in the ports had to be taken into account to meet national and international demands. Based on the present trends, it is expected that containerisation will be between 60% - 70% of all general cargo in the next decade. A container terminal layout is usually based on various requirements for container storage and transfer between ship and land feeder modes. When planning a new container terminal quite a number of decisive factors have to be considered which again will lead to the type of handling system requesting appropriate and special types of equipment. Further decision factors are the available area, the number of shipping lines to be served, access for operational reasons and the flow of information within the port. In addition

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