SMS Group successful with high-bay warehouse for containers
German Logistics Award 2022 goes to Boxbay
Ports around the world are reaching their limits: There is not enough space to cope with the growth in goods traffic, throughput times are too high, as are noise and light emissions and energy consumption in the terminals. Now there is a solution that addresses all these problems.
The Boxbay concept was developed by plant manufacturer SMS Group and has already proven itself in a pilot project in Dubai. This concept has now been awarded the German Logistics Prize 2022.
Tripling the storage capacity of a container terminal in the same space and completely avoiding time-consuming and unproductive restacking. This solution comes at a time when, due to ever larger ships, more and more containers have to be unloaded, temporarily stored and reloaded during port stops. At the same time, the average dwell time of a container at the terminals has also increased continuously due to the known supply chain problems. In order for supply chains to become more robust, terminals need greater buffer capacity, which cannot usually be created in the limited space available using conventional processes. "If we look back at the history of the container, nothing significant has changed since its introduction in 1956," says Carsten Heide, Head of Project Management at SMS subsidiary Amova.
The box bay concept, which functions like a high-bay warehouse for containers of all standard sizes, now radically changes the processes at the terminals: on the one hand, instead of a maximum of six containers, up to eleven boxes can now be stored on top of each other. Above all, however, they are stored separately and not directly on top of each other, so that restacking is no longer necessary. The containers can be stored and retrieved on several sides of Boxbay. A circulating transport system, which connects the aisles with each other, creates flexibility and speed during handling.
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