43800 tons divided between 25 tons/per dump contai
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43800 tons divided between 25 tons/per dump container-since nobody took up my inferred challenge to do the math -is 1752 dump containers. 4 loaders/4 jump containers in rotation. How many tons does each loader hold?
at say 15 minutes/container,4 containers every 15 minutes, 16/hour, w port open 7 a.m to 10 pm, do they load all hours of port operation-its light during those hours near the summer equinox, but if 14 hours/day,224 containers/day would be 7.8 days
load containers every 10 minutes, 4 containers, 4 every 10 minutes, 24/hr by 14 hours,336/day is 5.2 days.
They had worked out the kinks w ship #2, but being forced to move from the berth to "dock # 2" it seems loading got a little more complicated-because no dock cranes at dock 2 (only 1 official berth -only 1 berth w cranes at the EIT dock) .
So instead of the dock cranes picking up containers and directly transferring to ship, they are loading dump trucks it seems from the latest pics-that entails an extra step because then the dump trucks have to dump their load into the dump containers instead of the ships cranes transferring dump trucks to over the holds.
Regular bulk loading window is Thur- Sat so if its going to take much longer they might be able to go back to the official berth so dump truck step could be eliminated. Thats my quick guess anyway.