Hamburg · Container Terminal Altenwerder

A ship in port (riding along, key F)

1. 01

   waiting at anchor

2. 02

   coming in

3. 03

   at the quay: being unloaded and loaded

4. 04

   leaving

What is shown – why – for whom

Facilities and areas in the model

• Container gantries

  Up to 14 gantries unload a container giant; each moves a box in about two minutes (accelerated here).

• Container yard

  Block yard: fill level = stock of the port in the model.

• Terminal rail station

  Container trains up to 740 m are loaded inside the terminal: about half of the hinterland traffic goes by rail.

• Truck gate

  Gate check-in: if more trucks arrive than the gate can handle, a queue forms.

Processes in the model

How a container terminal can use the model

• Operations and planning

  Economy, consumption, industry and tolls can all be adjusted. Expensive roads shift freight to rail; where 41 % travels by truck today, yard, tracks and gate show at once what that means.

  For whomTerminal management, planning, port industry

• Onboarding and training

  Ride along with key F: the camera follows a ship from the anchorage to the quay, a train through the terminal station or a truck from the gate to the loading point. One line says what is happening.

  For whomNew staff, port trainees

• Local authorities and economic development

  The supply chain ‘Containers Hamburg → Munich’ shows how a box from overseas travels south via Lehrte – and what the port does for its hinterland.

  For whomLocal authorities, economic development, chambers

• Schools, universities, museums

  How does an automated container terminal work? Gantry, driverless vehicle, block yard and railway stand side by side, and the demo runs without anyone at the controls.

  For whomSchools, universities, museums and exhibitions

• Public communication

  The ‘Port strike’ scenario shows at four times the speed how ships wait at anchor and containers pile up – and one tap takes you back to today.

  For whomPublic relations, associations, port industry

What you can change

What the model gives a container terminal

• 01

  The real site as a stage

  Quay, yard, rail station and gate stand on terrain built from official elevation data. You show the terminal as it lies, not as a diagram.

• 02

  One port, three routes

  Ship, rail and truck run at the same time. The site profile shows every part of the terminal with live values.

• 03

  Disruptions without damage

  Trigger a port strike, storm, rail strike or ice, see where it gets tight first, then return to today.

• 04

  Site and map in one model

  The block yard’s fill level follows the port’s stock on the Germany map. What happens in the network arrives at the quay.

• 05

  For port visits and big screens

  Runs in the browser and on large projections, with a demo that starts without anyone at the controls.

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  Bremerhaven · car terminal and river quay

  Bremerhaven as a walkable model: almost five kilometres of river quay for the largest container ships, straddle carriers, car trains and parking for about 95,000 vehicles at the mouth of the Weser.

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  Wilhelmshaven · JadeWeserPort and LNG terminal

  Germany’s only deep-water port as a walkable model: the container quay on the Jade with straddle carriers and rail, plus the floating LNG terminal, a tank farm and the crude-oil pipeline to the refineries.

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  Lehrte · MegaHub

  A train-to-train transfer facility as a walkable model: six tracks of 720 m each, three gantry cranes, driverless transporters – and freight trains regrouped without shunting.

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  Munich · Riem transhipment station

  The transhipment station in the east of Munich as a walkable model: container trains from Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Italy, gantry cranes between train, yard and truck, and the A94 next door.

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  Großbeeren · freight village Berlin South

  The freight village on the Berlin ring as a walkable model: distribution centres for retail and food, an intermodal terminal for goods from Hamburg, and the expressway the capital’s supply depends on.

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  Germany · freight flows and nodes

  All of Germany as a map of blocks: 27 nodes, 55 freight flows as bands of light, eleven bottlenecks with traffic lights. Controls, seasons, disruptions and ten scenarios change every flow at once, compared with today.

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  Duisburg · logport I (Rheinhausen)

  A trimodal inland port on the Rhine as a walkable model: Rhine barges with sea containers from Rotterdam, gantries and yard, trains to the south, Eastern Europe and Asia, trucks into the region.

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  Duisburg-Schwelgern · works harbour and blast furnaces

  A raw-material chain as a walkable model: push convoys with ore and coal from Rotterdam, grab unloaders, ore and coal stockyards, conveyor belts and the Schwelgern 1 and 2 blast furnaces.