Mega Structures Of Singapore Port

Singapore is a modern island nation, smaller than New York

City, but it is home to one of the busiest container terminal.
Therefore, Singapore Port is such the busiest port in the world
that mega ships can handle. To handle these, “Harbor Pilots”
play an important role by squeezing the mega ships in the
narrowest channel of the port. The bigger the vessel, the higher
the security and laws. The port uses more than 6000 harbors to
run the economy of port 24/7, thousands of ships are docked in a
day.
There are three types vessels: Mega ships, RO-RO ships and
VLCCC. When they approach to the port, every second is very
important.There are many important facts that can’t be
negligible in this busiest port
The first one is “On time loading and unloading of cargos”.For
the punctuality of this process, Singapore uses 10 Storey mega
“Cranes” which is used only in mega port Like Singapore. Each
mega Crane can carry 35 Containers per hour and these can
carry 2 containers at one time. The ship can’t delay the
departure of next schedule.
The Second is the port traffic control center has to monitor
about the traffic ships properly sec by sec. No errors can occur.
Once the mega ship has arrived at a port, it’s port responsibility
to take care of it. To beat the working time, there are crane
strategy in three steps,
Step1: Max the machine
Step2: know the machine
Step3: Having a plan to unload containers
The unloading process is not easy because of the tilting of ship
if the crane crabs only the nearest sides.This needs to be taken
care off. Singapore port is very accurate in every process
relating to terminals and ships.
Third: To control the shipping lines, radars and cameras will
support $40 million vessel traffic information center. VTIS
contracts 5000 ships in real time. VTIS is an operator which is
similar with air traffic controller.
Fourth: Singapore Security check point is very Strict that no
illegal can pass through as they do double inspection. If they
don’t satisfy, they make another checking.Scanners and cameras
check every detail of containers 20s per container.

Fifth: There is also a car terminal which job is more difficult

than cargo. Car handling ships which is also called RO-RO
ships which carry around 4 to 5 thousands cars, have to avoid
Typhoon cause they can’t be shaken.

Sixth: All the processes of handling cargo are in computerized.

Singapore Lifeline is port and without a port, there will be no
food, groceries and festivals.In 1970s, Singapore uses computers
before internet and pc.At such time, things run on a different
scale like fueling by human.

Seventh: In a port, another important is security and inspection

of hazardous cargo and explosives. And when VLCC comes to
Singapore, there is a need of tugboat. If it happens wrong, the
world busiest port will shut down.

Eighth: To fit more 20 million containers in this busiest port, a

new container terminal is being built costing total $ 4
billion.The terminal is built of caisson, huge concrete blocks.
The terminal has the latest crane technology. Labors are running
the cranes in the ports Millemial Edition crane Operation
room.Each labor can handle 6 cranes in that room.
To sum up, Singapore is making the biggest and widest port to
be able to handle maximum cargo and making the terminal with
latest handling technology.