Management for the Container Terminal Expansion and Automation at Lineage Vlissingen

Preparing for the future

Lineage (previously Kloosterboer Vlissingen) is operating a terminal in Flushing specialised in temperature controlled food products. The cargo packaging was gradually shifting from general cargo towards containerized cargo. One of Lineage’s largest customers at their Vlissingen location, decided to switch it's method of operations from conventional transport to container transport when heading to Western Europe. It was very important for Lineage to not stay behind in this development, but to go along with it and be prepared for the future. Therefore, Lineage decided to invest in upgrading their existing Reach Stacker terminal to an automated solution to be able to handle all new volumes and grow even further towards the future. As an addition the decision was made to completely overhaul the Empty Depot at the site to be able to handle the additional volume of expected reefers. This was all achieved with the support of the Solid Port Solutions team who where previously involved with integrating a fully automated land side gate at the terminal.

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Our role and approach

Solid Port Solutions delivered the overall project management and support to ensure on-time and within budget delivery of the entire project. This was all done with support from Lineage staff and Lineage site management.

As the project contained almost all aspects of building a new terminal the decision was made to divide the investment into seperate phases that could be handled in parallel by different teams of different disciplines.

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1) Selection and implementation of a new Terminal Operating System

• Writing both functional and technical specifications
• Managing the procurement and vendor selection
• Support on implemenation, integration and configuration
• Support on testing software and reporting user errors
• User training
• Go-Live support

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2) Empty depot and new fully automated entrance

• Support on civil design of both Empty Depot and automated entrance
• Functional description for the Empty Depot entrance
• Testing the new gate and new software functionalities
• Go-Live support

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3) Selection and Implementation of Auto-RTG stacking cranes

• Writing both functional and technical specifications
• Writing equipment control requirements
• Managing the procurement and vendor selection
• Support on implemenation and operational integration
• Support on testing and reporting user errors
• Go-Live support
• Independent project engineer between the vendor and the customer for issue resolvement