How Container Ships Are Loaded so Fast
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- Опубликовано: 25 сен 2020
- This video discusses how container ships are loaded and unloaded. The process starts with the central planner who plans a general stowage plan of the ship. This plan is sent to the ship to execute when it arrives to port. Before the ship arrives in port there are many things to do to make sure that the ship is in working condition. Thanks for watching the video and be sure to watch and subscribe to my channel.
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Yes I have said bilge incorrectly
If a gregorian era pirates cannonball hit a container ship, would it damage it or bounce off?
@@Gwanchi They have RPGs thus they can set them on fire that is the problem. They could fall off but they are more concerned of it blowing up. That is why flammable cargo is not on the edges or sides.
@@Gwanchi oh you are talking about old era pirates well it would damage it for sure.
I was just about to mention 😂😂
Bro this is high quiality content, you should upload more often, you could easily make a living
Toward the end, the narrator credits "some guy" for inventing containerized shipping.
That guy is Keith Tantlinger (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Tantlinger), so let's give him the credit he deserves!
It's in the description with a link to an article about him and his death.
Wrong. Malcomb McClean invented the standardized container.
I think it's less that someone invented it, and more that everyone agreed to it. Writing a standard is easy, getting everyone to agree to use it is much harder.
I work at a Port, and I don't know why, but I still decided to click on this video, which is basically accurate
It's always fun to see how bad people mess up on subjects we are familiar with lol
@@ke6gwf That is very true lol, it's also fun when seeing it being very accurate as well
I work on container ships and I've done the same thing, this guy's pretty much right, some bits that aren't 100% accurate from the company I work for but could be company specific
I retired 20 years ago and here I am still watching.I guess its in my blood. Seeing the newest technology is amazing
I retired from SCSPA last year. I am so glad I did😃
The shipping container is one of the only true international standards that exist afaik
Another example would be the Internet Protocol and other telecommunication standards :)
Japan has their own smaller containers- I think it's due to smaller loading gauge on railways. Trucks still carry both.
Other than that, I'm pretty sure they are everywhere.
May I correct myself? The containers are smaller due to Japan using different forklift truck pallets.
Actually America's pretty metric people just don't know it a lot of things that they sell in imperial units at the store is just normal intervals of metric units with them imperial labeling on them.
@@scremingwhisper1720 And, the yard isn't defined "the length of such and such rod stored at this place" like it used to. It's defined by the metre! (same with all imperial)
Bilge (BILJ), not Blige (BLIJ)
I'm really curious about how you could make a video like this without knowing how to pronounce that. Who is producing the script?
a i. notta person
@@planaritytheory just someone who reads more than they hear.
@@planaritytheory he might be dyslexic and never heard that word before
easy mistake to make
It's insane how much of a logistics nightmare this seems like it would be, and yet its just done all the time.
The international shipping industry has always fascinated me. The way the system works and the amount of different countries involved is just so cool. I also like to collect Chinese labels and read them. The stuff that happened with the Suez Canal renewed my interest in ships and now I'm binge-watching videos about all the logistics behind cargo lol
Ya it’s a very interesting industry due to how many moving parts it has going on all at once, just scheduling when a ship can come into port is a nightmare as depending on where they are going you have to make sure there’s enough tide to reach minimum under keel clearance with enough room for any bridges and how these tides change during the transit in harbor
In San Francisco the minimum UKC is only 3 but with ships making 47 foot drafts and the channels dredged to ~50 feet it’s difficult plus we have some low bridges, my father has been able to touch the bridge from on top of the ship and talk with workers on there
@@owenruff4796 Isn't it a requirement for all cargo ships to be able to get through the Panama Canal though? I certainly wouldn't want cargo from Norfolk to Singapore to have to go through the Drake Passage
@@someonerandom704 there is no requirement for anything, the company designs their ships for how they would be used so if it doesn’t need to fit such as if they plan to go around South America/Africa which has been happening a lot more bc of how corrupt the canals are. Then so be it. It also has to fit into the ports they want it to go to
@@owenruff4796 Another question--if there are a lot of ships trying to unload at the same port at once and they form a queue, do the ships wait in national or international waters?
Having worked in container ships for 10yrs, i commend the uploader on a generally accurate presentation on this topic. May i add, there is a 45 foot container and we use stacking cones/twistlocks on all corners in between containers. And we follow certain requirements on stowage of dangerous cargo stipulated in IMDG Code, its not just about pirates.
I have a question for y pls
@@melloukacharf2796 i do the same thing whats up?
I feel like I've stumbled upon a hidden gem. Short and on point delivering what title and thumbnail suggest. I like it
Tell me about it! This is like air crash investigations when he first started, this is gonna be a hit!
I loved watching air crash investigations when I was younger still do
As a planner and foreman, I give a thumps up for this vid :)
What about "frozen bananas" in reefers? He is talking bananas.
I spent 30 years in Port Elizabeth working with container ships. The video is great.
Small channel with good quality videos is my favourite kind of channel
Me, too... but the really good ones don't stay small.
Simple and practical 🙏
Just one thing: Gibraltar DOES NOT HAVE a significant container terminal, therefore, when you say Gibraltar, what you are really saying is either Algeciras or Tanger-Med
Gibraltar is more well known so that is why I put it down
good video / that load management software is impressive
Love the video, I really dig the format and that it’s a niche topic I’d never otherwise find. Great stuff, your channel it’s going to get huge man 👍
Hidden gem for sure
This is like Wendover Productions: Extra Edition!
So Twice As Interesting then
@@ZaHandle WOAH!? Wendover is great!
Wow, this video is amazing quality and I really enjoyed it. Didn't expect it at all from a small channel like yours and you have definitely earned a new sub. If I can give one bit of feedback id reduce the music's volume a bit and or use some sound effects just to break up the music like when animations are playing. But overall excellent video and love your humor.
Very useful, thank you for sharing!
Thank you
Great video - hope this channel grows and produces more shipping videos too!
The hard part is to keep up with all the changes to the so-called plans made by office IDIOTS who usually have poor or no understanding or the realities of conditions in the yard. After 40 years of dealing with them l still shake my head at some requests. No idea at all!
Tell me a out it. Some ships I would work would have 6 and 7 revisions for a single crane.
This is true not just in container shipping but in other shipping companies as well. I've worked for FedEx for a little over 5.5 years and a lot of the decisions are made by corporate higher-ups when it comes to how things are run, and what decisions need to be made. FedEx Prides itself on safety, so most of the decisions made are for safety reasons. For instance all switcher trucks in most hubs around the country are governed at 10 miles an hour. Regardless of the size of the building. This puts incredible stress and strain on the switchers driving them due to how slow they move. not to mention the negative interactions with OTR drivers who often don't know that the switches are governed to get pissed off at us for moving so slow.
Corporate will occasionally visit the building, because it's performing so poorly, but they're not doing it writes IMO, you have to show up, unannounced, and dress like a normal package handler and see what this Hub is really about instead of getting The Grand Tour showing off how great everything is even though it's hell on earth for the average package handler.
@@Ben_R4mZ not just shipping
Everything from schools to construction
Maybe you should unionize and make it a requirement to understand the realities of shipping accross the ocean to make shipping plans? 🤔
In every industry forever there is always stupid management in an office that are completely clueless to the conditions at production lol
Very interesting and well researched
A very well put together video nice work.
When I was in the UK merchant navy as a deck officer there were times when I was involved with general Cargo. The principles were the same but this is vastly bigger scale!
Thank you for this very interesting video ! Actually, it brought more questions that it answered, but it's a really good sign ! :D
Just found your channel excellent video looking forward to more,brb going to binge watch all you vids
very informative. keep it up!
Thanks!
Good video.
Please make longer pauses between each sentence.
That is what I call good content. 👍 Keep up good work.
Wow this vid was great! Im suprised that you don't have more subs
You just answered my question of why ships are taller sometimes... thanks!
Awesome video
Super and excellent video,great information,never ever seen
Here we go subscribing within the first 10k educational RUclips channel before it blows up.
Seems interesting to work on or with a ship, but very stressful.
Yes it is. the interest, the excitement helps balance out the stress.
Man, your videos are good!
Thank you
Completely fascinating 🧠🧠🧠
Thank you algorithm for this video
You have a neat channel. Subbed
Nice video, there was even a short snip of the terminal I work at!
@Bill Sawyer which terminal is that, Bill. And time stamp on the vid? Cheers
Good job
efficiency and planning
Great work for a tiny channel!
Amazing video with great information
Good video & channel! As many pointed out, the quality is really good and your channel might very well be about to blow up. I would like to give a bit of feedback if you'll allow me: 1 you might want to invest in a better mic if you're serious about this. And 2: take your pauses. Relax and take a small break (bigger than what you're taking now) after a full sentence. Other than that, as I said: great stuff!
Thanks for the tips!
But seriously, a very good vid.
Okay, is this channel cool? Yes. I'm happy with this now.
This channel is awesome! The quality is the same as some million sub channels
Very nice 👍
This channel deserves more love
Thanks watching and commenting on the video it helps a lot!
Please make more videos about container 🙏
Thanks, I will try my best to put out more videos in the future.
A little different from the days of rope net slings, long shore men filling and emptying them, and ship mounted cranes to lift them. Not nearly as much “dock shrinkage” as in those days prior to containers either.
NGL, when I heard "stowage", I seriously thought he was "storage", but like, "stowage uwu"
I was looking for this comment
Crane operators are a rare breed. No wonder they get paid so much.
hi nice video bro.. just want to ask a question, as you said the heaviest containers go on the bottom, so what if the heaviest containers is the first one to be unloading to nearest port and the ship need to sailing again to another port? it is they need to do double handling?
That is a good question. I am not sure exactly how they would do it in that situation but there is always the ability for them to limit double handling.
As a stevedore I'd say this video is 75% accurate
I wonder if a container gets off by mistake, does it get on the next ship going to that port? Or, if a container fails to get off, does it get off at the next stop and put on a ship coming back? Having been in computers for 50 years, I know that mistakes are made, no matter what. EXCELLENT video! subscribed.
If a container is taken off a ship by accident and the ship leaves it you get into all kinds of crap with Homeland Security. You have to get all the I's dotted and all the t's crossed before it can go anywhere. Can cost thousands of $ in fines. Also if a ship is running behind due to engine issues or sea state, maybe going to miss its Canal time they will do transloads. That entails taking cargo off at a different port, having a ship come in and pick it up, and take it to its correct port. And sometimes they just dump everything on the port they're at and everyone has to go pick it up from that terminal. We had a surprise one weekend when a ship came in and they decided to offload an extra 500 empty containers we were not expecting that couldn't to go to New York for some reason. Containers loaded onto and coming off of ships are entered in a computerized system. We have a touchscreen in the machines doing the work. We enter the number as it comes to us so we know where that container is located. None of these containers were in the system so instead of having them pop up after you enter a few numbers you had to put all the numbers and letters for each one in the system. I got a call and they asked me if I wanted some OT so I sat in a pickup and just entered numbers. It may not sound like a lot from people unfamiliar with Terminals and Port work but that's a lot of ghost boxes to show up. Takes up quite a bit of room
As if the day of writing this you have 1.19k subs and 89k views on this video, I expect these numbers go shoot up incredibly fast for you, and I'll be here to see it all in real time, now if you'll excuse me I have all of your videos to go binge watch :p
I laugh my ass when saw the speak bubble "Who's idea was this?" hahahahahaha
Can you explain how the hatches are removed to put containers below the deck line? For a long time, I thought that they were open to the bottom of the well.
Yeah, each hatch has corner locks for gantry crane to lock in and lifted to shore, put back on ship just like lifting containers but slower and more carefully :))
We get one of the more burly stevedores on the yard to take a prybar and pop it open.
For all the documents that the ship needs to dock, is everything electronic? Don't they have some kind of card reader that has it all in place?
I am sure nowadays they have a lot more digitalization so should be the case. Depends every port does some things a little differently.
I say this RUclips channel is going to the moon
Question for you what is a blige pretty sure its bilge
yes I pronounced it wrong
"Because one guy decided to out a box in a box, then put it on a ship"
“if catwalk lights are out they must be replaced” sounds like one of those things they write in the safety docs and leave at that
True but there is a lot of time at sea so small repairs keep the crew occupied and make sure the ship is in it’s best condition during an emergency.
Very informative Presented a little too fast for this viewer. Thanks
I will try to slow down a bit. That is what my film teacher told me.
ON please do NOT slow down. The cadence is the best part
4:09 the BLIGE AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
There is one other parameter for deciding where a container gets placed on a ship, and that is how much heat can the contents of that container take, because, containers that get placed ontop of the ship's engines are going to get very hot, infact this has caused a container ship recently to catch on fire because the contents of the container that started the blaze was not accurately listed, container cargo that had a relatively low auto ignition point that the ship's engines were hot enough to cause autoignition.
RUclipsr: Pronounces a word wrong then apologies
RUclips comment section: *So you have chosen death*
Wow I can't believe a video of this quality came from a channel with 1000 subscribers.. I thought it said 1 million.
could you explain why sometimes some stacks of containers are slightly higher? You can see it @3:50. Are there taller or lower containers? Or why do containers stacks end up having slightly different heights?
It depends on where the containers a group of containers could be put in one place because they will be loaded to one destination limits double handling or the chance for it. Yes containers can have different heights.
There are two main container heights for these ISO containers (there are technically many heights available, but more than 90% are these two): standard of 8.5' and high cube of 9.5'. Each bay will have an overall height limit. Example: A bay may be able to have 7 standard containers above deck and if it has at least one high cube it can only have 6 total containers stacked. So high cubes may be stacked together but they can't always as depends on where they are going, weight, hazmat restrictions, etc so that is why you see slight variations over the towers of what appear to be similar containers.
Short answer: main reason is stability, secondary is container destination.
@@pthomas314 thank you, this was the answer I was looking for
Nice video. The narration should have English sub titles....it will help many who cannot follow the accent of the speaker.
Are the container ships able to load 53' containers❓
I think I depends on the company some might but I do know that APL does not since 2013.
www.joc.com/maritime-news/container-lines/apl/apl-abandons-53-foot-ocean-containers_20130315.html
53 ft containers are only used domestically in the United States and Canada based on regulations and roads capable of dealing with them. It is possible to send the 53 ft container on a marine ship but it's going to be treated like a piece of random cargo. To stack containers, they must be the same length (2x20=40). Containers also need to be able to support the weight of all the containers above them, and 53 ft containers are not rigid enough to survive ocean traffic.
Than*
I believe you meant to say "specific equipment".
yes
Why are the tops of the containers not level if they are all the same height? May be stupid questions but seems random too where they are slightly higher or lower at top of the stack.
There can be different container heights that can lead to the difference in height
You may find some bays empty and the some full this is because of trim and stability. This includes all kinds of stresses a ship is subjected to.
The minimization of turnover time has nothing to do with the amazing abilities to load and unload the ships. It all has to do with profits at the expense of the safety of the crew and cargo.
to some extent yes
I always wondered if the containers were strapped down or something
they are tied down with lashing equipment
Why do they only lift one container at a time? Thanks!
depends on the port, some in Asia can lift more than one at a time.
Some port can loads 20of four 40 of two
I used to live in Port Colborne ( 6:00)
Simple answer is, CAREFULLY, VERY CAREFULLY".
So what do the planners do when all the stuff going to Rotterdam is light and all the stuff going to Singapore is heavy? Just accept the double handling?
Good Question, that I am not to sure about but I am sure there are ways to minimize double handling.
the ship will take on ballast to lower the center of gravity, or they will segregate a bay for Singapore, or a combination of both.
@@Mostlyharmless1985 Thank you. I had this same question.
The ideal plan is to stow only the same port at a particular bay. This solves a lot of problems. For example, bay 02 only stow SGP containers, bay 06 only GIB containers and bay 10 only RTM containers and repeat. You want the quay cranes to be stationary (working on the same bay) as much as possible as gantrying left and right to load/discharge a few containers from many bays wastes time.
If this is not possible, the light RTM containers can be stowed at the top tier underdeck, or stacked on top of each other in the middle rows (eg 00, 01, 02). However this creates another problem as at ports before RTM, the crane operator would have to hoist loading/discharging containers at the ship's seaside over a tower of RTM containers in the middle.
I'm an ex-stowage planner for the port of Singapore, BTW 😊
@@NANICU Thanks for your detailed reply. I really enjoy the details of cargo operations.
I have a question. You say that a 40' container fits on 2 20' containers. But I wonder do 2 20' containers fit on a 40'container? I ask because I'm developing a board game about loading containers on a container ship.
Wow that is cool. Yes 2 20' containers (6.096 meter) will fit under a 40' (12.192 meter) container
@@ON-YT Sorry that I was unclear and maybe a stupid question. But does 2 20' fit on top of a 40' container?
@@edmundengland yes that would fit
@@ON-YT I'm happy to hear that you sounded postive to have a container port as the setting for my board game.
@@edmundengland yeh it is not something I hear often. And a interesting idea.
Voice sound is a bit low.
Sometimes it’s not even treating the ballast water, such as with, at least California (USA), all the water must be flushed and refilled a few times ~200 M offshore to assure there is nothing but clean seawater
So it’s not like Tetris?
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The “blige”?
bilge as I have said it incorrectly
It's the first time i've tried to watch tje video that is so silent that's almost unusable.. it's a shame because the topic seems interesting
thanks for telling me
Too late the Great Lakes in America have already been infested with zebra mussels that were in the ballast water in some foreign ships.
Is this someone reading the wikipedia page? Has clearly never seen a lot of these words before.
Ah yes I did pronounce some of the words wrong realizing afterwards, my apologies. Although I did leave a link to source down below none from wiki.
Never watched this channel before. :11 into the video I'm greeted with a misspelling.
Ignore channel.
good at pre calculus and good at youtube
not so great a pre calculus
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Think you need to pause for a little longer between sentences
yup
Interestingly, I used to work as a container controller in the offices near the port. I also went with the Captain to our offices so the Captain could call the head office and I stayed overnight after dinner/ breakfast with the Captain. this was in England
Back it up and leave it on wheels there work from the door backedup cover from rain cut out the fence for gate next door
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@4:00 and @4:07 blidge? You mean "bilge"? And @0:11 "cheaper then air"? "Than" is used for comparisons; "then" means afterward.