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Trends in Container Terminal Infrastructure and Technology
There is a growing gap between infrastructure development and technology. Over the past 20 years, increasing container ship size has been a key market driver. Port planners, engineers, and scientist need to prepare for increase automation, upper limits for future ship size, and port infrastructure. This presentation provides insight into future infrastructure development and technology needs based on these factors and suggests steps to maintain resilient port systems.
Ongoing growth in ship size requires an integrated approach to infrastructure development and technology to ensure technology advancement, infrastructure resiliency, terminal operations, and sustainability at future container terminals. The continued growth in the use of containerized cargo, ever-increasing ship size, and need to modernize container terminals at US ports require a review of the evolution of container terminals, current and future trends, and needed investments.
Research, investment, and information sharing are needed to ensure critical upgrades in US container terminal capacity and infrastructure due to autonomous ships, increased vessel size, and needed upgraded port infrastructure. Container ports are the center of the cargo distribution transportation hub and the most significant contributor to the US economy. Port cargo activity contributes roughly $4.8 trillion to the economy yearly, over 23 million jobs, and over $320 billion annually in federal, state, and local tax revenues (AAPA 2017). Since an ocean carrier’s greatest asset is its ship and a port owner’s greatest asset is its infrastructure and these assets can be optimized enhance productivity, data analysis, and integration. Active management and interaction are crucial to provide seamless movement of cargo through the supply chain to consumers. The ability to understand and forecast these changes helps stabilize and reduce risk in the process. This presentation depicts trends and changes in one part of the chain have a cascading effect on the rest of the chain.
Ongoing growth in ship size requires an integrated approach to infrastructure development and technology to ensure technology advancement, infrastructure resiliency, terminal operations, and sustainability at future container terminals. The continued growth in the use of containerized cargo, ever-increasing ship size, and need to modernize container terminals at US ports require a review of the evolution of container terminals, current and future trends, and needed investments.
Research, investment, and information sharing are needed to ensure critical upgrades in US container terminal capacity and infrastructure due to autonomous ships, increased vessel size, and needed upgraded port infrastructure. Container ports are the center of the cargo distribution transportation hub and the most significant contributor to the US economy. Port cargo activity contributes roughly $4.8 trillion to the economy yearly, over 23 million jobs, and over $320 billion annually in federal, state, and local tax revenues (AAPA 2017). Since an ocean carrier’s greatest asset is its ship and a port owner’s greatest asset is its infrastructure and these assets can be optimized enhance productivity, data analysis, and integration. Active management and interaction are crucial to provide seamless movement of cargo through the supply chain to consumers. The ability to understand and forecast these changes helps stabilize and reduce risk in the process. This presentation depicts trends and changes in one part of the chain have a cascading effect on the rest of the chain.
About the Presenter
Omar Jaradat
Technical Director
Moffatt & Nichol
Omar A. Jaradat, Ph.D., P.E., D.P.E., M.ASCE
Dr. Jaradat is a Technical Director for Structures nationwide with Moffatt & Nichol. His responsibility includes program oversight, project management, and integrated design for marine infrastructure that promotes optimization, resiliency, sustainability, code, and technology advancement. Dr. Jaradat is a 20 year practitioner in marine engineering, port planning, big ship ready impact analyses, and engineering research projects throughout the Americas and in the Middle East. Dr. Jaradat experience include consulting on more than 150 marine terminal projects with international, national and international private firms and public sector organizations. Representative clients at the federal, state, local, and international levels include: US NAVFAC, Ports of Los Angeles; Long Beach; Seattle; Oakland; San Francisco, cities of Los Angeles, Huntington Beach, Newport, and Khalifa Port Container Terminal Detailed Design, Abu Dhabi; among others. Dr. Jaradat is an expert in the field of performance-based design of pile-supported structures and his experience includes design, analysis, and engineering of infrastructure systems such as ports and harbor structures, bridges, retaining structures and buildings. He has led the development and upgrade of port-wide design criteria for the port operations and complexes at Los Angeles and Long Beach, California which involved crane-wharf interaction analysis for design and evaluation of wharf structures. In addition, Dr. Jaradat uses state-of-the-art analysis and design techniques of linear and non-linear time-history analysis, spectral analysis and non-linear static pushover analysis. Dr. Jaradat serves on numerous national technical committees specialized in developing code standards for analysis and design of earthquake resistant reinforced concrete elements. He is chair of ASCE/COPRI Piers and Wharves Standards committee, chair of ASCEC/COPRI Port Certification Program; member of the ASCE/COPRI 61 Standards committee on Seismic Design of Piers & Wharves; and member of PIANC MarCom Working Group 225.
Dr. Jaradat is a Technical Director for Structures nationwide with Moffatt & Nichol. His responsibility includes program oversight, project management, and integrated design for marine infrastructure that promotes optimization, resiliency, sustainability, code, and technology advancement. Dr. Jaradat is a 20 year practitioner in marine engineering, port planning, big ship ready impact analyses, and engineering research projects throughout the Americas and in the Middle East. Dr. Jaradat experience include consulting on more than 150 marine terminal projects with international, national and international private firms and public sector organizations. Representative clients at the federal, state, local, and international levels include: US NAVFAC, Ports of Los Angeles; Long Beach; Seattle; Oakland; San Francisco, cities of Los Angeles, Huntington Beach, Newport, and Khalifa Port Container Terminal Detailed Design, Abu Dhabi; among others. Dr. Jaradat is an expert in the field of performance-based design of pile-supported structures and his experience includes design, analysis, and engineering of infrastructure systems such as ports and harbor structures, bridges, retaining structures and buildings. He has led the development and upgrade of port-wide design criteria for the port operations and complexes at Los Angeles and Long Beach, California which involved crane-wharf interaction analysis for design and evaluation of wharf structures. In addition, Dr. Jaradat uses state-of-the-art analysis and design techniques of linear and non-linear time-history analysis, spectral analysis and non-linear static pushover analysis. Dr. Jaradat serves on numerous national technical committees specialized in developing code standards for analysis and design of earthquake resistant reinforced concrete elements. He is chair of ASCE/COPRI Piers and Wharves Standards committee, chair of ASCEC/COPRI Port Certification Program; member of the ASCE/COPRI 61 Standards committee on Seismic Design of Piers & Wharves; and member of PIANC MarCom Working Group 225.
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Trends in Container Terminal Infrastructure and Technology
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