Extended Operational and Trade Vocabulary
Container Terminal Cranes, Yard Equipment, and Lashing glossary (page 2)
Vocabulary of container terminal equipment and cargo securing: automated mooring systems, OCR gate automation, above-deck stow and Cargo Securing Manual lashing, active heave-compensated cranes, and the ship-to-shore gantries, automated guided vehicles and battery-swap and yard-handling equipment terminology of modern box terminals.
301 defined terms.
Showing 51 on this page (page 2 of 2).
T
- Tideworks Vanguard
- Tideworks gate operating and intermodal yard system.
- Tier
- Horizontal layer of containers in a stack, numbered 02, 04 upward on deck.
- Tippler
- rotary railcar unloader at bulk terminals.
- Top Pick
- Top-lift forklift used for stacking empty containers, typically up to seven or eight high.
- TOS
- Terminal operating system.
- Translift
- Translifter cassette tractor system used in RoRo and intermodal terminals to lift cassettes onto a roll trailer.
- Trelleborg MoorMaster
- Trelleborg-branded vacuum mooring system that secures vessels by suction without conventional mooring lines, following the transfer of the Cavotec MoorMaster product line.
- Trelleborg SmartHook
- Trelleborg quick release mooring hook with integrated load monitoring and remote release.
- Triplex Moorings
- Group of mooring fitting products by Triplex AS of Norway, used on offshore and specialty vessels.
- Trolley
- STS or RMG trolley carrying the spreader along the boom or trolley girder.
- Trolley Festoon
- Cable management system that supports the trolley power and control cables along the boom and girder.
- Tsubasa Soft TOS
- Japanese terminal operating system used at several Japanese container terminals.
- Tug Master
- Skilled professional master of a tug.
- Turnbuckle
- Threaded device for tensioning rigging or lashings.
- Twin lift
- STS crane fitted with a spreader handling two 20 ft containers simultaneously.
- Twin-Twenty Spreader
- A spreader fitted with retractable twenty-foot heads enabling single or twin lifts of 20-foot boxes.
- Twistlock
- Locking device joining containers at corner castings.
U
- ULCS
- Ultra Large Container Ship, above about 18,000 TEU.
- Unit Load Device
- Term more common in air cargo than marine, occasionally used for palletized container freight station outputs.
- Unitization
- Bundling small goods into a single handling unit.
V
- VDL AGV
- Automated guided vehicle from VDL Steelweld in the Netherlands, used at automated container terminals.
- Verstegen
- Dutch maker of bulk grabs and hopper-grab systems, headquartered in Rotterdam.
- Vigan
- Belgian maker of pneumatic continuous ship unloaders for grain, soybean meal, and other free-flowing bulks, headquartered in Nivelles.
- Vis-A-Pix
- Container OCR system supplier providing gate and crane-mounted recognition for terminals.
- VLCS
- Very Large Container Ship, a vessel class between Post-Panamax and Ultra Large Container Ship sizes.
- Voith Schneider Propeller
- cycloidal propeller used on Voith Water Tractors.
W
- Wave Loads
- Dynamic forces on lashed deck stacks calculated per the IMO CSS Code annex 13 method and refined by lashing software.
- WCS
- Warehouse Control System occasionally interfacing with container freight station and terminal yard systems.
- Wedge Block
- Lashing accessory used to fill gaps between non-standard cargo and a container floor or deck.
- Weighbridge
- certified scale for trucks at the gate.
- Wharfinger
- Operator or manager of a wharf.
- Wheel Brake
- Mechanical or hydraulic brake on yard equipment wheels, the primary parking and emergency stop device.
- Wide Span Gantry
- RMG configuration spanning multiple yard rows and a truck lane, used at intermodal facilities.
- Wire Rope Brake
- Wedge or roller brake that grips the hoist rope as a backup to drum brakes on safety-critical cranes.
X
- X-Body Carrier
- Specialty straddle carrier configuration with reinforced legs for heavy projects.
- X-Ray Inspection
- Radiographic NDT method for weld root and internal defects.
Y
- Yangshan Phase IV
- Shanghai container terminal commissioned with fully automated STS, AGV, and ASC operation, the largest automated terminal at opening.
- Yard block
- stacking module of rows, tiers, and bays.
- Yard Crane
- Generic term covering RTG, RMG, and ASC cranes that handle containers within the storage area.
- Yard tractor
- Terminal tractor moving chassis or mafis.
- YT122
- Terberg yard tractor model widely used in North American and European terminals.
Z
- Zero emission terminal
- Terminal targeting zero direct emissions.
- ZPMC
- Shanghai-based fabricator of jack-ups and crane vessels.
- ZPMC ASC
- Automated stacking crane built by ZPMC for fully automated container yards.
- ZPMC Dual-Trolley STS
- Two-trolley ship-to-shore crane design with an intermediate platform between waterside and landside hoists.
- ZPMC Megamax-24
- ZPMC ship-to-shore crane sized to serve 24-row container vessels of 24,000 TEU and above.
- ZPMC Neo-Panamax
- Class of ZPMC STS cranes sized for the New Panamax lock dimensions.
- ZPMC Post-Panamax
- ZPMC STS crane class for vessels exceeding original Panama Canal width.
- ZPMC RTG
- ZPMC-built rubber-tired gantry, the dominant supplier into Chinese and Southeast Asian terminals.
- ZPMC Tandem-40 Spreader
- ZPMC spreader configuration for tandem 40 foot container lifts.
- ZPMC TOS
- Terminal operating system supplied by ZPMC with crane and automation packages.