SSG No 20 - Shipgaz

PORTS & MARITIME LOGISTICS
Århus:
The new
public
terminal
The new Cargo Service container terminal in Århus has 1.3 km of quay served by fi ve SSG’s
(Ship-to-Shore Gantries).
Imagine this scenario: You have 37
years of experience running a major
container terminal and access to the
latest modern technology and are
about to design a completely new
terminal within the same harbour. It has
to be the perfect match, somebody will
say.
“I would say it was the perfect match”,
says T. Bonne Larsen, CEO of Cargo Service,
terminal operator in the Port of Århus,
who was the happy man that participated
in the opening of the brand new container
terminal in Århus at the beginning of September.
“It has been a very interesting task and
our organisation has worked hard for two
and a half years to make the new terminal
second to none”, says T. B. Larsen.
“We have put all efforts into making it a
terminal with the future built in, as we had
this rare opportunity to do it all over again.
I will not use words like the best in Europe,
but I think that we have come far in our
efforts to be one of the best in our size”,
says T. B. Larsen.
The new terminal is part of the master
plan for Århus Port, which saw the need
years ago for a new terminal with much
more space and easier access than the old
terminal (which will be used for housing,
including the tallest building on Danish soil
BEnT MIkkELSEn
THE TERMINAL
• 750,000 sqm, of which the public terminal
is 331,000 sqm
• Avarage dwell time on loaded container: 4.5
days
• Average dwell time on empty containers:
10.9 days
• Storage capacity of empties public terminal:
2,920 slots capable of 6,000 TEUs in stock
• Storage capacity on fulls on public terminal:
2,620 slots capable of 3,000 TEUs
• Length of quay (shared with Maersk exclusive
terminal) 1,300 metres with a depth of 14
metres.
• Container cranes at Århus terminal (shared
with Maersk terminal):
2 super-postpanmax
3 post-panamax
1 panamax
• Århus terminal turnaround in TEUs:
2006: 939,000
2007: expected to be over 1,000,000
• 1,500 container ships call at Århus terminals
per year.
• Århus terminal is placed as number 89 world
wide, according to Container Management,
after Miami and Marseilles.
being built later on). The need for space and
access was combined with some new land
reclaimed in the Bay of Århus, where the
Maersk Terminal Århus was fi rst in 2001.
New ways
The new terminal is fi tted with a number
of electronic devices enabling easier arrival
of lorries with containers (as well as empty
lorries). Furthermore, using GPS technology
is used for information about the
whereabouts of each container in the yard.
That same technology will also be used for
directing the straddle carrier working in the
container yard. This is not yet implemented,
but soon a certain pick-up of a container
will be assigned to the carrier closest
to the storage point of the container, thus
dramatically reducing the many miles that
the machines drive without cargo.
Personal identifi cation of lorry drivers is
used to make the terminal even safer and
securer after the latest rules.
The way in
Safety and logistics are combined in the
electronic systems. When a lorry approaches
the terminal it passes an arch with card
readers and a camera that takes up to a
thousand photos per second of vehicles
passing. The information on the identifi cation
card of the driver is read and if things
34 SCAnDInAVIAn SHIPPInG GAZETTE • OCTOBER 26, 2007