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Container cargo transfer systemRelated Patent Categories: Material Or Article Handling, Marine Loading Or Unloading System, Marine Vessel To Marine VesselContainer cargo transfer system description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20080112779, Container cargo transfer system. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This is a continuation-in-part of co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/735,343, filed Dec. 11, 2000, and of co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/016,169, filed 30 Nov. 2001. [0002] U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/170,270, filed 11 Dec. 1999, is incorporated herein by reference. [0003] U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/735,343, filed Dec. 11, 2000, is incorporated herein by reference, as is the published version of that patent application. [0004] International Patent Application No. PCT/US00/33568, filed Dec. 11, 2000, is incorporated herein by reference, as is the published version (Int. Pub. No. WO 01/42125) of that patent application. [0005] U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/016,169, filed 30 Nov. 2001, is incorporated herein by reference, as is the published version of that patent application. [0006] International Patent Application No. PCT/US01/48090, filed 30 Nov. 2001, is incorporated herein by reference, as is the published version (Int. Pub. No. WO 02/044073) of that patent application. [0007] U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/310,593, filed 7 Aug. 2001, is incorporated herein by reference. [0008] U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/270,334, filed 21 Feb. 2001, is incorporated herein by reference. [0009] U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/250,053, filed 30 Nov. 2000, is incorporated herein by reference. [0010] U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/394,988, filed 10 Jul. 2002, is incorporated herein by reference. [0011] Priority of these patent applications is hereby claimed. STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT [0012] Not applicable REFERENCE TO A "MICROFICHE APPENDIX" [0013] Not applicable BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0014] 1. Field of the Invention [0015] The present invention relates to cargo transfer systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems for transferring cargo between ocean-going vessels and land destinations or ocean-going vessels and barges or between ocean-going vessels, barges, and landside terminals, and including direct transfer from barges to rail without storing the goods landside. [0016] 2. General Background of the Invention [0017] At present large container vessels provide economies of scale by carrying very large numbers of intermodal containers and container derivative devices such as flat racks and open tops containers. Such large ships today carry more than 6000 twenty foot equivalent units (TEU) and still larger ocean-going vessels are foreseen. The containers carried by these large vessels are generated by several regional ports spread geographically over areas such as South East Asia, UK/North Europe or a US coastal region. This requires the large vessel to either make multiple port calls, some times once to discharge and later to double back to load, or by using a port in the region as a hub port where the large vessel proceeds to a landside terminal, from which containers are both landed for local distribution and transshipped to feeder vessels or barges and/or to trucks or rail cars, for distribution to other port destinations. The terminal operation required at landside hub ports is extensive and costly involving trucking from quay to storage in stacks and load out in a reverse operation at later dates to on carrying vessels. [0018] Typically, import containers discharged from a large carrier vessel at a landside terminal are hauled from the dock side to stacked storage on the back side of the terminal or placed on wheeled chassis and parked for later haul back to cranes for loading to feeder vessels or to rail cars at distant sidings or transferred to trucks for delivery to other ports or inland locations. [0019] Outbound containers are received at a landside terminal from rail sidings, often at remote locations or from drays and long haul trucks or feeder vessels and assembled on the backside of the terminal awaiting the arrival and readiness of the large carrier to load. Hundreds of acres of land are required for such operations in addition to the several handling operations involved. [0020] The critical matter of road and rail infrastructure required for landside terminals to accommodate large vessels can take decades to develop and billions of dollars in cost. Environmental issues may also intervene. In Vietnam, a jack-up causeway was used to unload containers from ships. The causeway was used as a dock where trucks took the containers as they were unloaded and hauled away. Continue reading about Container cargo transfer system... Full patent description for Container cargo transfer system Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Container cargo transfer system patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. Fill in the keywords to be monitored. 3. Each week you receive an email with patent applications related to your keywords. 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