What is a ro-ro wharf?

Ro-ro wharf refers to the wharf that meets the requirements of ro-ro loading and unloading of commercial vehicles, and is an important node in the logistics chain of the whole vehicle.

After decades of development, the Ro-Ro terminal has added new services such as customs declaration, commodity inspection, transportation, PDI inspection and VPC automobile service on the basis of the traditional terminal loading and unloading and warehousing functions.

At present, South Korea, Japan and European countries are mature in the use and research of automobile ro-ro terminals and port logistics industry, and each country has its own unique views on terminal site selection, site design and functional service diversity according to its own national conditions.

Ro-ro wharf is a kind of wharf type that is most closely related to ships, and the equipment with the highest degree of correlation is the ship springboard. Therefore, the ship's springboard can be classified from the perspective of the overall design of the wharf, and it can be summarized into three categories: straight springboard, inclined springboard and bilge springboard (side springboard). As the basis of ro-ro ship classification, the shoreline layout of ro-ro ship terminals is classified, and the calculation formulas of berth length of various ro-ro ship terminals are summarized.

The main facilities of the automobile ro-ro wharf are: berth, wharf front, yard, central control room, automobile processing center, inspection port and communication facilities. Parking lot is an important operation resource of automobile ro-ro terminal, and parking lot operation is an important link in the operation of automobile ro-ro terminal.

With the increase of the throughput of the ro-ro terminal, the parking space resources of the terminal are in short supply, and the traditional operation mode of the terminal parking space gradually exposes the shortcomings of low parking space utilization rate and many reversing. Therefore, this paper takes the operation of automobile ro-ro terminal yard as the research object and improves its scheduling strategy.

Characteristics of ro-ro wharf

But in general, the world-famous ro-ro wharf has the following characteristics:

1) Large automobile manufacturers are close to the hinterland or have built special roads and railways to connect with automobile manufacturers.

2) As an important node in the whole logistics chain, the land transportation network around the Ro/Ro terminal is developed and multimodal transport is convenient.

3) Get rid of the traditional production mode of single business such as loading and unloading and warehousing, and gradually transform into a comprehensive service enterprise providing ground transportation, agency, customs declaration, commodity inspection, PDI testing and VPC value-added services.

4) High degree of automation, reasonable personnel arrangement, scientific site design, clear division of functions and complete value-added service facilities.