The port of Montevideo exported over 750,000 tons of wood chips in 2008. Wood is harvested and chipped at mills before being transported by truck to the port, where two belt conveyors unload two trucks simultaneously into a vessel's hold. It takes approximately 65 trucks making 1,900 loads over 8 days to load an average of 38,500 tons of wood chips onto a vessel at a rate of 300 tons per hour.
Difference between intermodal shipping and multimodal shippingHirfan Ullah
Multimodal: Multimodal transport (also known as combined transport) is the transportation of goods under a single contract, but performed with at least two different means of transport; the carrier is liable (in a legal sense) for the entire carriage, even though it is performed by several different modes of transport (by rail, sea and road, for example). The carrier does not have to possess all the means of transport, and in practice usually does not; the carriage is often performed by sub-carriers (referred to in legal language as “actual carriers”). The carrier responsible for the entire carriage is referred to as a multimodal transport operator, or MTO.
Intermodal: Intermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in an intermodal container or vehicle, using multiple modes of transportation (rail, ship, and truck), without any handling of the freight itself when changing modes. The method reduces cargo handling, and so improves security, reduces damage and loss, and allows freight to be transported faster. Reduced costs over road trucking is the key benefit for inter-continental use. This may be offset by reduced timings for road transport over shorter distances.
Difference between intermodal shipping and multimodal shippingHirfan Ullah
Multimodal: Multimodal transport (also known as combined transport) is the transportation of goods under a single contract, but performed with at least two different means of transport; the carrier is liable (in a legal sense) for the entire carriage, even though it is performed by several different modes of transport (by rail, sea and road, for example). The carrier does not have to possess all the means of transport, and in practice usually does not; the carriage is often performed by sub-carriers (referred to in legal language as “actual carriers”). The carrier responsible for the entire carriage is referred to as a multimodal transport operator, or MTO.
Intermodal: Intermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in an intermodal container or vehicle, using multiple modes of transportation (rail, ship, and truck), without any handling of the freight itself when changing modes. The method reduces cargo handling, and so improves security, reduces damage and loss, and allows freight to be transported faster. Reduced costs over road trucking is the key benefit for inter-continental use. This may be offset by reduced timings for road transport over shorter distances.
"Outsourcing and globalization have numerous benefits, but they have a significant downside—the proliferation of counterfeits and sales through unauthorized channels."
Free and Open Source Software distributions raise difficult problems both for distribution editors and system administrators. Distributions evolve rapidly by integrating new versions of software packages that are independently developed. System upgrades may proceed on different paths depending on the current state of a system and the available software packages, and system administrators are faced with choices of upgrade paths, and possibly with failing upgrades.
Mancoosi develops mechanisms that provide for rollbacks of failed upgrade attempts, allowing the system administrator to revert the system to the state before the upgrade, and better algorithms and tools to plan upgrade paths based on various information sources about software packages and on optimization criteria.
The consortium as a whole is entirely committed to the free software movement, and the project sets up virtuous cycles associating users, industry and researchers that will outlive the project itself.
Mancoosi is a European research project in the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission, which has started February 1st, 2008, and has a duration of 3 years.
"Outsourcing and globalization have numerous benefits, but they have a significant downside—the proliferation of counterfeits and sales through unauthorized channels."
Free and Open Source Software distributions raise difficult problems both for distribution editors and system administrators. Distributions evolve rapidly by integrating new versions of software packages that are independently developed. System upgrades may proceed on different paths depending on the current state of a system and the available software packages, and system administrators are faced with choices of upgrade paths, and possibly with failing upgrades.
Mancoosi develops mechanisms that provide for rollbacks of failed upgrade attempts, allowing the system administrator to revert the system to the state before the upgrade, and better algorithms and tools to plan upgrade paths based on various information sources about software packages and on optimization criteria.
The consortium as a whole is entirely committed to the free software movement, and the project sets up virtuous cycles associating users, industry and researchers that will outlive the project itself.
Mancoosi is a European research project in the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission, which has started February 1st, 2008, and has a duration of 3 years.
2. The port of Montevideo is run by the
National Port Administration
(Administración Nacional de Puertos or
ANP).
The port of Montevideo is located on the
left bank of the River Plate at a latitude of
34º 55´S and a longitude of 56° 14´W.
The port of Montevideo has shown a
steady growth in traffic for many years.
Commercial cargo volumes have more
than doubled from 4.3 million tones in 2000
to 9.1 million tones in 2008.
Passenger Traffic: passenger traffic is
Main categories of cargo in 2008: becoming another key element of
•Containers: 54,4% Montevideo's port economy:
•General cargo: 9,3% •Ferry Traffic: 500.000 passengers and
65.000 vehicles carried.
•Bulk cargo: 36,3%
•Cruise traffic: 120.000 passengers
3. During 2008, Uruguay exported 1.9 million tons of forest
products (Montevideo Port only).
Over 750.000 tones of woodchips were exported in 2008.
4. Wood Chip: Wood Processing
After the harvest operation, the
wood is loading into trucks and is
delivered to the mills.
In the mills, the wood is cleaned
with pressure water, chipped and
storage in a pile, waiting to be
delivered to the port.
5. Wood Chip: Vessel loading
The wood chips are delivered to
the port by trucks. To load
38.500* tons is required 1900
truck loads. Is used 65 trucks
during 8 days.
*Average of tons per vessel loaded in 2008
At the port there are 2 belt
conveyors that have the capacity
to unload 2 trucks at the same
time. This belt conveyor goes
directly to the hold of the vessel.
6. Wood Chip: Operations in the vessel
The wood chips are loading with
an average of 300 ton/hour. The
wood chips are distributed by
two loaders in the hold of the
vessel.
Every hold is loaded with
different amount of wood chips in
order to stabilize the vessel until
it finished loading.
7. Summary of the operation at the port
of Montevideo
• 750.000 tones of wood chips were
exported in 2008
• 65 trucks do an average of 1900
loads to carry the wood chips to the
port.
• The vessel remains at the port an
average of 8 days.