What is' outer yard 'and how does it affect container handling efficiency?

Container yard "and" container handling efficiency "：

Container yard: refers to a place within or around a container terminal for the handover and storage of containers. Sometimes, a container yard is also referred to as a yard. Imported goods are stored in the yard, and when the shipper needs to pick up the container, they also need to go to the yard to pick it up.

The speed of container pickup mainly depends on whether the shipping company stores the goods in a public dock yard or a dedicated dock yard. A dedicated terminal refers to a shipping company cooperating with a terminal, where container ships have the priority to dock and load and unload goods. The dedicated yard also refers to a yard specifically designed to store the shipping company's container cargo.

In addition, the reason that affects the efficiency of container pick-up is that the container does not match the frame. If the container matches the frame, the truck driver can directly pick up the container with the truck head.

'Inner yard' and 'Outer yard'：

Container yards can be divided into inner yards and outer yards. The inner and outer yards are another factor that affects the efficiency of container handling. The yard inside the port is usually located within the dock area, at a certain distance from the hinterland of the port; The yard outside the port is located outside the dock area, usually on the passage between the port and the hinterland.

There are two types of stacking in the outer yard, one is wheeled, which means that containers are stored separately in the yard and equipped with frames. Truck drivers only need to bring the truck head over to directly pick up the containers. This type of container pickup is quite efficient, and container goods located in the outer yard do not require advance booking for container pickup.

Another way of stacking is ground, which means stacking on the ground. The containers here will be stacked layer by layer, and in addition, there are no gantry cranes that can move forward, backward, left, and right like docks in the outer yard, only front facing cranes. Frontal lifting can only lift the topmost container, so the containers stacked on the ground are waiting for matching frames, and it takes some time to find and retrieve the containers, resulting in much slower container lifting efficiency.