Our main facilities in container terminals include the quay, the container yard, the container freight station, the interchange area, the gate facility, and the railhead. Our process at container terminals can be divided into subprocesses: arrival of the ship, cargo unloading and loading, transport of containers from the ship to stack, stacking of containers, and inter-terminal transport and other modes of transport. As containers move along the container transport chain, they can have a different status, including empty container, full container load, and less than container load. Generally, our network of nodes and links involved in the container transport chain involves four principal functions, i.e., consignment assembly, consignment consolidation, carriage, and port handling.
