Design Framework for a Modular Floating Container Terminal

Souravlias, Dimitris; Dafnomilis, Ioannis; Ley, Jens; Assbrock, Gerrit; Duinkerken, Mark B.; Negenborn, Rudy R.; Schott, Dingena L.

doi:10.3389/fmars.2020.545637

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“…For example, rather than abandoning islands, can islands and their infrastructure be designed to be raised with SLR, potentially avoiding the need for migration? Similarly, floating islands (Proetzel 1983, Souravlias et al 2020, Drummen and Olbert 2021, Flikkema et al 2021, Tamis et al 2021 might be explored with similar benefits.…”

Section: Physical and Engineering Challengesmentioning

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Pathways to sustain atolls under rising sea levels through land claim and island raising

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Nicholls

Bloodworth³

et al. 2023

Environ. Res.: Climate

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Low-lying atoll nations (e.g. the Maldives, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Marshall Islands) are highly vulnerable to climate change, especially sea-level rise (SLR). Stringent climate change mitigation will slow but not stop SLR, which will continue for centuries, mandating additional long-term adaptation. At the same time, urbanisation is concentrating population in a few centres, especially around capital islands which creates additional pressure as most atoll nations are ‘land-poor’. This paper demonstrates how structural adaptation using land claim and island raising can be utilised within an adaptation pathway approach to sustain enough islands and land area above rising sea levels to satisfy societal and economic needs over multiple centuries. This approach is illustrated using the Maldives, especially around the capital and its environs (Greater Malé). Raising, expanding and connecting ‘urban’ islands can provide multiple benefits. Significant developments have already occurred in Greater Malé and further developments there and for other urban centres in the Maldives are expected. Migration to urban centres, especially Malé, is widespread and this adaptation approach assumes this trend continues, implying many other islands are depopulated or abandoned. Tourism is core to the Maldives economy and tourist islands require a different ambience to urban islands. They could be sustained with sympathetic soft engineering reinforcing the natural processes that produce atolls. While land advance and island raising provides a technical solution for SLR, any application must also address the additional policy, human, physical, engineering and economic/financial challenges that are raised. Nonetheless, by aligning adaptation through land advance/raising with existing development trends, atoll nations have the potential to persist and prosper for many centuries even as sea levels inevitably rise. This provides a realistic alternative to widespread assumptions about forced migration and ultimate national abandonment. The lessons here may find wider application to other small island settings and even mainland coasts.

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Section: Physical and Engineering Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pathways to sustain atolls under rising sea levels through land claim and island raising

Brown

Nicholls

Bloodworth³

et al. 2023

Environ. Res.: Climate

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“…It also aimed to determine the appropriate storage capacity and equipment to minimize a floating terminal's capital and operating costs. Operational planning includes preparing and scheduling several terminal logistics problems, including berthing allocation, crane assignment, and stowage planning [20]. In terms of real-time monitoring, the application will be directly related to operations at the terminal, where an approach is taken to overcome several logistics problems.…”

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“…Optimizing maritime logistics led to the development of a floating infrastructure [16][17][18][19]. Currently, there is a high demand for the construction of such floating infrastructure because conventional types are costly, and the capacity is limited [20,21]. Floating infrastructure is usually based on converting ships or barges to moored platforms with various cargo commodities [19,22].…”

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Conceptualizing Floating Logistics Supporting Facility as Innovative and Sustainable Transport in Remote Areas: Case of Small Islands in Indonesia

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Hutapea²,

Marpaung

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Transportation is the main component that ensures the optimal distribution of goods in the maritime logistics system of small Islands. Therefore, this research developed a Floating Logistics Supporting Facility (FLSF) to overcome the logistics problems on small Islands by implementing sustainable operational systems. The research samples used were Nias, Kisar, and Sangihe Islands in Indonesia, with dimension, propulsion, operation, and mooring utilized as the four primary considerations. An FLSF was applied as a floating terminal capable of accommodating loading and unloading operations, ship mooring, cargo storage, stacking, and dooring services. The result showed that an FLSF can be applied to logistics activities while considering the safety aspects and related regulations. Based on the results, the FLSF can improve the quality of sustainable logistics operations and increase economic growth in remote islands.

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“…Permanent monitoring of the dynamic behaviour can be required to ensure the safety of these structures. In the European Union Space@Sea project a concept to create space in marine environment using flexible floating platforms is designed [25], areas of application of floating offshore platform arrangements are given in more detail in [26,27]. This arrangement consists of platform elements and some mooring elements attached to the corner platforms, an example of such a platform arrangement is shown in Figure 1.…”

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Fault Detection in Offshore Structures: Influence of Sensor Number, Placement and Quality

2022

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Within the Space@Sea project floating offshore islands, designed as an assembly of platforms, are used to create space in offshore environments. Offshore structures are exposed to harsh environment conditions. High wind speeds, heavy rainfall, ice and wave forces lead to highly stressed structures. The platforms at the Space@Sea project are connected by ropes and fenders. There exists the risk of a rope failing which is therefore investigated subsequently. To ensure the safety of the structure, the rope parameters are monitored by the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF). For platform arrangements, a large number of sensors is required for accurate fault diagnosis of these ropes, leading to high investment costs. This paper presents a strategy to optimize the number and placement of acceleration sensors attached to the floating platforms. There are also high demands on the sensors due to the harsh offshore conditions. Material deterioration and overloading may lead to decayed sensor performance or sensor defects. Maintenance of offshore sensors is difficult, expensive and often not feasible within a short time. Therefore, sensor measurement deviations must not affect reliable structure fault detection. The influence of defect sensors on the rope fault detection is examined in this study: Types, intensities, number, place of occurrence of defect sensors and the distance between defect sensors and rope faults are varied.

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Design Framework for a Modular Floating Container Terminal

Cited by 9 publications

References 28 publications

Pathways to sustain atolls under rising sea levels through land claim and island raising

Pathways to sustain atolls under rising sea levels through land claim and island raising

Conceptualizing Floating Logistics Supporting Facility as Innovative and Sustainable Transport in Remote Areas: Case of Small Islands in Indonesia

Fault Detection in Offshore Structures: Influence of Sensor Number, Placement and Quality

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