The Kwangyang Container Terminal Project, building an automated container terminal, has been planned to provide a cost efficient process for the increasing quantities of goods transacted. Three berths for 50, 000 DWT container vessels, allowing 220,000 DWT in the supposed contingency, will be constructed within 30 months from contract date. Through value engineering and life cycle cost analysis, the hybrid slit and the slit caissons, as the most suitable option, have been selected from many quay wall structural types. The terminal will be equipped with a container handling system comprised of container crane (CC), automated transfer cranes (ATC) and automated guided vehicles (AGV). The system ensures the effective operation and rapid treatment of containers, minimizing the need for any additional manual labor.
The Kwangyang Container Terminal Project, building an automated container terminal, has been planned to provide a cost efficient process for the increasing quantities of goods transacted. The terminal, located at the Kwangang bay, is an optimal location due to its geographical convenience as a Mega Hub Port of North Eastern Asia, connecting the Korean Peninsula to China and Russia.
Large size slit caissons and hybrid slit caissons have been employed in order to meet the requirements of ultra large container vessels with an effective handling system in the berths. The handling system involves automated facilities including ATC, AGV and etc., which are highly advanced.
The hybrid slit caisson and automated container terminal system which have been applied to the Kwangyang 3–2 Container Terminal Project will be presented in this paper.
The hybrid caisson is named for the different materials, steel beam and reinforced concrete, which have been used to form a composite structure. The two materials of the composite structure should remain bonded together and act in concert to provide improved strength characteristics not obtainable by any of the original materials acting alone.
