A well-packed ship from Asia won’t run up extra time and money when it is unloaded in the U.S. The ship was turned around faster than expected - a proof of concept for this type of planning. Seroka said they are just scratching the surface when it comes to sharing this kind of information. “We also had influence of the loading scheme of this vessel in China and South Korea.” “We learned the information of this ship’s vessel stowage some two weeks ahead of time,” said Gene Seroka, executive director at the Port of LA. “It’s like going through a Caesar salad and separating croutons and salad and chicken,” said Bobby Olvera, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s Local 13 in Los Angeles. Several shipping companies must team up to fill a single vessel, meaning the containers, or cans, arrive all mixed up. P lanning is key and it is further complicated by shipping alliances. “You have to be able to move the cans off the dock quickly.” “The yards get clogged up easier,” Califano said. With bigger ships, even small disruptions in the flow create big consequences.
As stacks of containers are moved out, other stacks are moved onto ships. Once docked, containers move through an elaborate circuit from ship, to storage yard, to truck or rail. “They are effectively asking the ports to be twice as productive to get ships out on time.” “It’s the peaking of the volume,” said Tim Power, a shipping consultant at Drewry.
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West Coast ports have been receiving mega ships for years now, and may provide a model to New York, Charleston and other East Coast ports for how to handle them. “ They’re taller than the Empire State Building, loaded with 13,000 trucks, essentially, and they’re massive,” said Peter Califano, a crane operator at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The challenges start all over again when these giant ships actually dock. But making room for these vessels with taller bridges and deeper harbors is just the beginning. The aim is to attract mega ships, the ones now able to move through the expanded Panama Canal. New York just passed the halfway mark on its $1.3 billion project to raise the Bayonne Bridge, set to open in 2017.
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