Quay, yard, gate and rail run as one machine, on one plan, re-solved every second.
The first terminal is a concession or joint venture at a secondary port. Infrastructure capital funds berths, yard and grid. IC runs the operation with its own machines and The Brain, and rebuilds the terminal to this layout block by block.
A 30 to 50 year concession or joint venture with a port authority, starting at a secondary port. Infrastructure funds carry the civil works; IC operates and supplies every machine.
Each crane lifts two forty-foot boxes a minute at peak and holds 85 boxes an hour over a shift. A 24,000 TEU ship exchanges 12,000 boxes in one 20-hour call.
Automated rail-mounted gantries stack five high in 36 blocks. The slot for every import is chosen before discharge, so boxes are stacked in the order they leave.
Ten camera lanes read the truck, the box and the seal. The truck is called only when its box is staged at the interchange, so there is no queue at the gate.
On-dock rail takes 40% of boxes: about seven 3 km trains out and seven in each day, handed straight to the IC rail network.
Rail network →Twelve supervisors a shift run the terminal from the operations room. They see the same twin, hold or reroute any move and clear exceptions. No one works inside the automated zone while it runs.
Every move is planned before the ship is alongside. The crane, the road train, the yard crane and the truck each arrive at the minute the box does.
Every machine on the terminal is built by IC for The Brain. 176 machines work the reference terminal; each links to its own page.
Two forty-foot boxes a lift, a lift a minute at peak. Three berths, eight cranes on the largest ships.
Ship-to-shore crane →72 work the 36 yard blocks in pairs; 6 load and unload trains on the on-dock tracks.
Rail-mounted gantry crane →Road trains of four forty-foot boxes between crane, block and rail yard, 40 to 48 boxes an hour each.
Terminal tractor →Stages each import at its interchange slot before the truck is called, and takes exports off the chassis.
Straddle carrier →Works the empty-container yard and moves between blocks as the empty flow shifts.
Rubber-tired gantry crane →Out-of-gauge boxes, the empty depot and tight corners the gantries do not reach.
Reach stacker →The Brain holds the common operating picture, the digital twin and the shared data model for every box and machine. Its decision layer plans the quay, yard, gate and rail together; orchestration hands each machine its next move.
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