Abstract:
Recent trends in marine cargo transportation market include continued increase in global container shipping volume and the introduction of mega-sized containerships. It implies that container cargo handling capacity, worldwide, must increase accordingly. A natural consequence of these trends is the need for enhanced port capacity and capability. However, this is not the best solution as it comes with a number of other problems: it brings environmental and large-scale port investment and so on. It is a novel maritime container transport solution that can go out to a ship anchored in the deep water to load/unload containers on sea and take them to their destination ports regardless of their water depth. Thus, our project focuses on the development of mobile harbor and improving its stability using weight slider mechanism. It is a linear actuated mechanism which at least offsets the weight of the containers placed on the ship and reduces the vibration of the ship. The theoretical results show improved stability which means a larger moment arm (measure of stability) at various angles of tilt.
