Large-sized automated warehouse system for harbor facilities

摘要

Multistory warehouse system in which are aligned rows of cells for accommodating containers. The rows are facing onto corridors parallel thereto and in which shuttles run for moving containers along the corridors and for insertion and extraction of containers into or from cells facing the corridor. In the rows there are cells that include an elevator for movement of the containers between the stories. Advantageously one story the warehouse has a row of cells that opens on an external face of the warehouse to constitute entry and exit of the containers towards transit stations the receive the containers from cranes loading or unloading a container ship or land transportation means by road-haulage or rail.