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the Shanghai Maritime University cluding small laptop versions and Simulators provide trainers with a good
in China. SMU purchased a two containerised “CraneSims”
idea of whether trainees have the hand/
MasterLift 4000 configured for which are housed in 40ft contain-
eye co-ordination needed by equipment
STS and RTG training and fea- ers and available for booking by
operators. (GlobalSim ML4000 series
turing a multi-channel dome any port in the world.
in dome configuration shown)
visual configuration and three de- ABB launched its own crane
grees of freedom motion system. simulator in 2004 and demon- HPH Karachi and Yang Ming
The same month GlobalSim strated a containerised version at Kaoming in Taiwan. Only Yilport
delivered a ML4000 to Freeport several Terminal Operators Con- has decided to go for the contain-
Container Port, Bahamas. ferences. ABB offers a complete erised option so far and its two
Freeport selected STS and har- package including driver training units will be the first of a new
bour mobile crane modules and material with manuals and tests generation that ABB plans to
chose to mount the simulator in a developed with the Port of launch at TOC in Bremen in June.
customised over-the-road trailer Gothenburg and the Swedish Although simulators are
for portability. Freeport will use Academy of Harbour Logistics. mostly a training tool, they can
the simulators for training new also help ports with “outreach”
and experienced operators and as Inside edge programmes to inform the wider
part of its annual and biannual
ABB has been able to leverage its position as a leading crane control systems
ABB initially developed its crane testing of crane control systems public of the importance of the
competence tests for renewal of
engineer to gain a strong position in the simulator market. The company plans
to launch a new generation simulator at TOC Europe in Bremen in June
simulator as a commercial prod- and the simulation modules use port sector and the need for port
operator licenses. Freeport has uct, offered separately or as a pack- the same software controlling development.
plans to convert at least part of its one ML4000 operating in Dur- a crane simulator across multiple age with its crane control systems. crane drive PLCs. Using the same Finland’s Hureka Science
yard to ASCs it will still use strad- ban since mid-2008 and the two terminal developments is to put The company’s position as a lead- software can save a lot of expen- Centre has been running an 18-
dle carriers and plans to purchase new units will be installed in con- the simulator in a shipping con- ing crane drives supplier puts it in sive on-site commissioning time, month exhibit in Helsinki called
a straddle carrier simulator mod- tainers and shipped out to Cape tainer, and P&O Ports was pursu- a good position to leverage crane particularly with automated crane “Ships and the Sea” that features
ule in the future. Town and Port Elizabeth. ing this option before it was ac- control software into the product control systems. a dual-plasma screen Kalmar reach
They will be configured for quired by DP World. The Maersk and to market simulators to its ABB has been very successful stacker simulator developed by
Coega usage STS and RTG cranes and used at Training Centre (MTC) uses extensive client base. and has delivered or has under Oryx Simulation of Sweden. It is
Another GlobalSim customer, Ngqura by eight dedicated train- simulation extensively and has re- ABB has also found that simu- delivery seven simulators to the apparently the main attraction of
South African port operator ers to train 60 new crane drivers cently created a new department lation is an effective in-house de- following ports: Gothenburg, Lian the exhibition and 30,000 people
Transnet, has ordered two more in preparation for the port’s open- called Terminals and Logistics velopment tool and the easiest and Yun Gang (China), Northport tried a container move in the first
ML4000 simulators as it gears up ing this October. Trainees will which offers crane driver training fastest way to test new control Malaysia, Yilport Turkey (two), months since it opened. a74
to begin operations at its new spend a week in the simulator at one of four centres in Denmark, software. It now has a dedicated
Ngqura container terminal near before getting real crane time. UK India and China. in-house simulator that it uses ex-
Port Elizabeth. Transnet has had One way to spread the cost of MTC has several simulators in- tensively for development and
Eurogate adopts ViTO
Eurogate IT Services has pur-
chased a simulation-based
Your professional partner for marine transport
“planning and emulation
tool” called ViTO (Virtual Ter-
minal Optimisation) devel-
oped by the Institute for Ship-
ping Economics and Logistics
(ISL) in Bremen.
ViTO is based on ISL’s simu-
lation tool SCUSY (Simulation
of Container Unit Handling
Always on the move
System), which it has used for
over 20 years. It is a tool that
allows simulation strategies to
be coupled to the actual TOS
or equipment control systems
(“emulation”).
With this approach simulation
models developed during the ter-
minal planning stages can be re-
used during implementation and
start-up to test the TOS and
The business connector component of
equipment control systems.
ViTO is important for Eurogate group,
This is becoming more com-
because of the variety of TOS used by
mon and is recognised as a suc-
the terminals in which it has an
cessful strategy to “de-bug” the interest. (CTH Hamburg shown)
TOS and minimise problems
when going live with a new TOS device emulators from other sup-
COLI Schiffahrt & Transport GmbH & Co. KG Phone: +49 40 339718-0
or upgrade. pliers can be integrated to ViTO.
Fax: +49 40 330079
Very flexible More accurate
Großer Grasbrook 10 Mail:
hamburg@coli-shipping.com
In 2007 Eurogate purchased TBA’s Using the exact applications and
20457 Hamburg, Germany Web:
www.coli-shipping.com
CONTROLS emulation tool for algorithms that will control the
a project to test the TOPX-Ad- equipment in operation means the
Agents: Amman, Antwerp, Beirut, Bremen, Dubai, Hong Kong, Houston, New York, Quebec, Rotterdam, Singapore, Surrey, Tokyo.
vance TOS from RBS of Australia simulation should deliver more
prior to going live at it Hamburg accurate results.
terminal. ISL’s Dr Holger Schött “Moreover during the ac-
says Eurogate can use ViTO to test ceptance test phase of one de-
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emulation products is that it may
be purchased by the customer as Business connector
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a licensed product. “The customer To test and optimise a new TOS
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sation and may change terminal of the terminal operation and a
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these changes,” he said. of which can be developed by the
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start-up customisation, which ticularly important to the
includes the TOS interface, the Eurogate Group as its terminals
user can change the layout, traf- use a wide variety of TOS.
fic network, number of quay Terminal operators need to
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equipment and more. per terminal and ISL will do the
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this regard; each device emulator Maintenance contracts and other
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30 March 2009
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