Container Terminal Reefer Container Management System

At present, the container terminal is trending to specialization, large-scale development. The manual operation or semi-manual operation cannot satisfy the business needs of large-scale container terminal. Therefore, an automatic management system is highly needed to fulfill it. Now, there are a few vendors of the management system for container terminal, such as Sparcs System from Navis. U.S, currently is used by Shanghai, Qingdao, Ningbo ports; Cosmos System from a Belgian company, which core module is widely used in the Dayaowan Project Release 2; in addition, Shanghai HaiBo company is one of them as well. The much more functional the system is, the more integration it has, and the less information manually entered it requires.Dalian TechPort Service Co.,Ltd is now developing an enhanced terminal operation system (TOP+) for DICT, which fits Dalian port environment very much. This article will introduce the sub-system of TOP+, which is mainly for Reefer container management. Reefer Container Management System achieves two main functions for reefer operation: Using Hand-Held Terminal Operation System to send and recieve the instruction of inspection, connection or disconnection reefer container. Central Monitor System achieves the the functions of operating and monitoring the reefer operation, and provides the exception alert and statistic report. After the system goes alive, it helps reefer operator to ensure the safe and reliable power supply and reefer container working in gear. It also helps to improve the work efficiency and provide the real-time believable data. Hand-Held Terminal Operation System cooperating with Terminal Wireless System which covers each single handling of yard operation, replaces the manual operation thoroughly, and builds the Central Monitor Control Terminal Operation System.Reefer Container Management System builds upon C/S 3 level structure. The client develops by Java Swing, the middle level uses WebLogic, and the database uses Oracle 10g. The System uses Webspere MQ as external interface, which reduce the coupling with other system farthest. At the same time, the system considers all kinds of customers' requirements sufficiently, and support all the reefer container operations.