The present invention provides a rain-guard device for shipping that can prevent water from seeping into a hatch opening. A rain-guard device for shipping 20, includes a rail 19, which is placed on a sliding hatch cover 11, an on-board chute 22, which is provided in the rail 19 in a travelable manner, which covers part of a hatch opening 13, and which, furthermore, supplies cargo from a shiploader 1 into the hold 7, a lid member 23 to cover the rest of the hatch opening 13, and a water-blocking part 100, which prevents water from seeping into the hatch opening 13, through a gap between the lid member 23 and the sliding hatch cover 11.

The present invention provides a rain-guard device for shipping that can prevent water from seeping into a hatch opening. A rain-guard device for shipping 20, includes a rail 19, which is placed on a sliding hatch cover 11, an on-board chute 22, which is provided in the rail 19 in a travelable manner, which covers part of a hatch opening 13, and which, furthermore, supplies cargo from a shiploader 1 into the hold 7, a lid member 23 to cover the rest of the hatch opening 13, and a water-blocking part 100, which prevents water from seeping into the hatch opening 13, through a gap between the lid member 23 and the sliding hatch cover 11.

In preferred embodiments, the present disclosure relates to methods for transportation of hazardous waste and/or waste classified under TSCA, and may comprise the acts of: translocating at least one intermodal trailer chassis from a primary terrestrial site to a first stationary barge, wherein said trailer chassis is carrying an intermodal shipping container containing the waste material, and wherein the first stationary barge is adapted to rise and fall with changes to the water level; moving the intermodal trailer chassis carrying the intermodal shipping container from the first stationary barge to a mobile barge adapted to traverse the body of water; traversing the body of water with the mobile barge; and offloading the at least one intermodal trailer chassis carrying the intermodal shipping container to a secondary terrestrial site via a second stationary barge.

There is the method of loading and unloading containers in a port facility. The facility includes quayside cranes, automated gantries for stacking/unstacking containers, vehicles for transporting containers, communication lanes for vehicles including transit lanes under each quayside crane and parallel circulation lanes situated between the quayside cranes and access lanes to the automated gantries. The method includes managing journeys of the vehicles as a function of the container removal and placement requirements, in particular the allocating to each vehicle of a task and of a destination and the selecting of a provisional parking site for the vehicles in transit in buffer zones provided for this purpose. The vehicles are assigned to provisional parking sites under the cranes and/or in the proximal circulation lane of the cranes, which are used as a buffer zone.

There is the method of loading and unloading containers in a port facility. The facility includes quayside cranes, automated gantries for stacking/unstacking containers, vehicles for transporting containers, communication lanes for vehicles including transit lanes under each quayside crane and parallel circulation lanes situated between the quayside cranes and access lanes to the automated gantries. The method includes managing journeys of the vehicles as a function of the container removal and placement requirements, in particular the allocating to each vehicle of a task and of a destination and the selecting of a provisional parking site for the vehicles in transit in buffer zones provided for this purpose. The vehicles are assigned to provisional parking sites under the cranes and/or in the proximal circulation lane of the cranes, which are used as a buffer zone.

The offshore jack-up has a hull and a plurality of moveable legs engageable with the seafloor. The offshore jack-up is arranged to move the legs with respect to the hull to position the hull out of the water. The method comprises moving at least a portion of a vessel underneath the hull of the offshore jack-up or within a cut-out of the hull when the hull is positioned out of the water and the legs engage the seafloor. A stabilizing mechanism mounted on the jack-up is engaged against the vessel. The stabilizing mechanism is pushed down on the vessel to increase the buoyant force acting on the vessel.

The present disclosure provides a rain-guard device for a nozzle that can prevent the cargo being loaded aboard from getting wet with rainwater. A nozzle rain-guard device 30 has a nozzle cover 31, which covers an outer periphery of a nozzle 8 of a shiploader 1, and a chute cover, which is provided in a lower end part of the nozzle 8, and covers a chute 22 provided on a hatch opening 13 from above.

A system for managing shipping containers and twist lock connectors is described. The system includes multiple stations. Each station includes a container platform and a pallet station. The container platform is able to accommodate various container sizes and/or multiple containers at one time. The container platform includes connector changers, handlers, and gantries that are able to automatically engage connectors with a container and disengage connectors from a container. The station includes a shuttle able to transfer connectors between the platform handlers and pallet station handlers and gantries. The pallet station includes a pallet with multiple receptacles for storing connectors. The pallet station and/or the container platform may include one or more magazines and/or one or more conveyors.

Container terminal comprising at least one ship crane (9) for loading and unloading a container ship (21), at least one handling crane (11) for loading and unloading a land vehicle such as a truck or a railway wagon with a container loop (1) being a circuit for automated guided vehicles (13) arranged on at least two levels of different elevation, so that in the area of the ship crane (9) a roadway 15 can be arranged underneath and parallel to the container loop (1) and there are no crossings between the entrance and exit of the roadway (15) and the container loop (1).

The present disclosure provides an inexpensive rain-guard device for shipping, that can cope with large vessels. The rain-guard device for shipping has a rail 19, which is disposed on a sliding hatch cover 11, an on-board chute 22, which is provided on the rail 19 in a travelable manner, covers part of a hatch opening 13, and, furthermore, supplies cargo from a shiploader 1 into a hold 7, and a lid member 23, which covers another part of the hatch opening 13, and the lid member 23 is disposed both in front and in rear in the traveling direction of the on-board chute 22, and, furthermore, configured to expand and contract as the on-board chute 22 travels.