CONTAINER TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a container terminal allowing a carriage to smoothly move between two parallel traveling passages and capable of improving efficiency of cargo work and reducing electric power consumption, and a method of controlling the container terminal.SOLUTION: A container terminal includes: an outgoing passage 11 and a return passage 12 located adjacent to a storage lane 2 in which a container C is stored and extending in the longitudinal direction of the storage lane 2; and a cart 9 self-propelling in the outgoing passage 11 and the return passage 12. The cart 9 includes self-propelled devices 20, 30 capable of self-propelling in a direction in which the outgoing passage 11 and the return passage 12 are extended and in a direction approximately orthogonal to the extending direction without changing the orientation of the cart 9. The container terminal includes a connection passage 14 that intersects with each of the outgoing passage 11 and the return passage 12 and in which the cart 9 is self-propelled without changing the orientation of the cart 9.