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Embodiments of the present invention include quayside cranes and yard cranes related by a low elevated transfer system and a ground transportation carrier system. The low elevated transfer system includes low elevated transfer subsystems having low elevated rails, the low elevates rails include low

Embodiments of the present invention include quayside cranes and yard cranes related by a low elevated transfer system and a ground transportation carrier system. The low elevated transfer system includes low elevated transfer subsystems having low elevated rails, the low elevates rails include low elevated crane rails and low elevated flat carrier rails, low elevated cranes are disposed on the low elevated crane rails and low elevated flat carriers are disposed on the low elevated flat carrier rail. The ground transportation carrier system includes ground transportation carrier rails and transportation carriers moving along the ground transportation carrier rails. Embodiments of the present invention transport the containers by rails and use municipal electric as the power supply. A three-dimensional low elevated transfer system and a ground transportation carrier system are provided to implement three-dimensional transportation of containers. Embodiments of the present invention provide a container transportation schema that is efficient, power saving, environmental and automatic, ground resources are utilized with high efficiency. The present invention is an expansion and development of the invention provided in CN 200510111464.0.

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1. A loading/unloading system for container terminal, wherein a container yard is disposed close to the quayside and transportation of containers between the yard and a ship is realized in a three-dimensional and electric driven mode, the loading/unloading system comprising: quayside cranes, each co

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A loading/unloading system for container terminal, wherein a container yard is disposed close to the quayside and transportation of containers between the yard and a ship is realized in a three-dimensional and electric driven mode, the loading/unloading system comprising: quayside cranes, each comprising at least a trolley, a travelling mechanism and a hoisting mechanism, the quayside cranes operable for loading/unloading containers on/off a ship and a low elevated system at a certain position, wherein containers on the ship are arranged in a first direction, containers being loaded/unloaded by the quayside cranes are kept in the first direction, and trolleys of the quayside cranes move in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction;a low elevated transfer system, comprising at least one low elevated transfer subsystem, each subsystem comprising at least one group of low elevated rails disposed along the first direction, each group of low elevated rails comprising a low elevated crane rail and a plurality of low elevated flat carrier rails with a multi-tier structure, at least one low elevated crane being disposed on and moving along one low elevated crane rail, at least one low elevated flat carrier being disposed on and moving along one of the plurality of low elevated flat carrier rails with a multi-tier structure, the low elevated crane performing loading/unloading operation on a low elevated flat carrier and one of a plurality of corresponding ground transportation carriers at a certain position, the low elevated flat carrier rails being configured to enable the low elevated flat carriers to reach at least a position where the low elevated flat carriers can cooperate with trolleys of the quayside cranes and a position where the low elevated flat carriers can cooperate with the corresponding ground transportation carriers;a ground transportation carrier system, comprising at least one group of ground transportation carrier rails disposed along the second direction in each yard, the ground transportation carrier rails aligning to passages in the yards and extending to a certain position in the yard, the transportation carrier rails also extending to a position below the lowest tier of the low elevated transfer subsystem in the low elevated transfer system, the ground transportation carrier system further comprising the plurality of ground transportation carriers moving along the ground transportation carrier rails, the ground transportation carrier rails being configured to enable the ground transportation carriers to reach at least a position where the ground transportation carriers can cooperate with the low elevated cranes and a position where the ground transportation carriers can cooperate with the yard cranes, the ground transportation carrier system further being configured to ensure that the ground transportation carriers are not in a same plane with any low elevated flat carriers on any tier of the low elevated transfer system, the ground transportation carrier having an ability to rotate to an angle between the first direction and the second direction with or without a container;yard cranes, each comprising at least a trolley, a travelling mechanism and a hoisting mechanism, the yard cranes operable for loading/unloading containers on/off a yard and ground transportation carriers, the yard cranes being disposed on yard crane rails that are arranged along the second direction, containers in the yard being arranged along the second direction, the yard cranes moving along the yard crane rails, the yard crane rails being configured to enable the yard cranes to reach at least a position where the yard cranes can cooperate with ground transportation carriers and a position where the yard cranes can cooperate with the yard;when loading the containers to the ship, a yard crane hoists a container in the second direction from a yard, the yard crane moves to a position above a ground transportation carrier or the ground transportation carrier moves to a position below the yard crane along a ground transportation carrier rail, the yard crane puts the container onto the ground transportation carrier and the ground transportation carrier moves along the ground transportation carrier rail to a position below a low elevated rail of the low elevated transfer system, the ground transportation carrier rotates the container from the second direction to the first direction, the low elevated crane hoists the container from the ground transportation carrier to a low elevated flat carrier, the low elevated flat carrier moves along the low elevated flat carrier rail to a position below a quayside crane, the quayside crane hoists the container from the low elevated flat carrier to the ship;when unloading the containers from the ship, a quayside crane hoists a container in the first direction from a ship and puts the container onto a low elevated flat carrier, the low elevate flat carrier moves along a low elevated flat carrier rail to a position that can cooperate with a ground transportation carrier, a low elevated crane hoists the container to a ground transportation carrier, the ground transportation carrier rotates the container from the first direction to the second direction, the ground transportation carrier moves along a ground transportation carrier rail to a yard, a yard crane hoists the container from the ground transportation carrier to the yard; andwherein the low elevated crane includes supports, a traveling mechanism, a platform, a rotation plate, a hoisting mechanism and a rotation mechanism, the traveling mechanism is provided below the supports and enables the low elevates crane to move along the low elevated crane rails, the platform is provided above the supports and the rotation plate is provided on the platform, the hoisting mechanism and the rotation mechanism is provided on the rotation plate, the hoisting mechanism rotates together with the rotation plate, wherein the hoisting mechanism and the rotation plate are able to rotate to an angle between the first direction and the second direction with or without a container, when loading the containers to the ship the hoisting mechanism and the rotation plate rotate the container from the second direction to the first direction, when unloading the containers from the ship the hoisting mechanism and the rotation plate rotate the container from the first direction to the second direction; wherein the hoisting mechanism is configured for hoisting two 40 feet containers simultaneously. 2. The system of claim 1, wherein the number of the low elevated transfer subsystem is determined based on the number of berths in the container terminal, the number of quayside cranes and the number of yards. 3. The system of claim 2, wherein two low elevated flat carriers are disposed on each low elevated flat carrier rail in a low elevated transfer subsystem for transporting containers in different areas; the low elevated flat carriers and low elevated flat carrier rails in each low elevated transfer subsystem are constructed to have a plurality of tiers. 4. The system of claim 2, wherein two low elevated cranes are disposed on each low elevated crane rail in a low elevated transfer subsystem. 5. The system of claim 2, wherein the low elevated transfer system further comprises a backup low elevated transfer system. 6. The system of claim 1, wherein the quayside crane can be all kinds of quayside cranes, especially a quayside crane that hoists two 40 feet containers simultaneously; the yard crane can be all kinds of yard cranes, especially a yard crane that hoists two 40 feet containers simultaneously. 7. The system of claim 1, wherein the quayside cranes, the low elevated cranes, the low elevated flat carriers, the ground transportation carriers and the yard cranes are powered by municipal electricity. 8. The system of claim 1, wherein further comprises: rear yard cranes, configured to load/unload with trucks. 9. The system of claim 1, wherein for special containers, the quayside cranes load/unload them with container trucks within a gauge of the rails of the quayside cranes. 10. A loading/unloading system for a container terminal, comprising: a plurality of quayside cranes having trolleys and being operable for loading/unloading containers on and off a ship, wherein the containers on the ship are arranged in a first direction;a low elevated transfer system, including: a low elevated crane rail arranged along the first direction;a low elevated crane disposed on and moveable along the low elevated crane rail and having a hoisting mechanism and a rotation plate, the hoisting mechanism being rotatable together with the rotation plate to an angle between the first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction with or without a container, the hoisting mechanism being further configured for hoisting two 40 feet containers simultaneously;a plurality of low elevated flat carrier rails having a multi-tier structure and being arranged along the first direction, the multi-tier structure having a lowest tier;a low elevated flat carrier being disposed on and moveable along one of the plurality of low elevated flat carrier rails with a multi-tier structure; andwherein the low elevated crane is configured to perform loading and unloading of the low elevated flat carrier and the low elevated flat carrier rails are configured to enable the low elevated flat carrier to reach at least a position where the low elevated flat carrier can cooperate with the trolleys of the plurality of quayside cranes;a ground transportation carrier system including: a plurality of ground transportation carrier rails disposed along the second direction perpendicular to the first direction and extending to a position below the lowest tier of the low elevated transfer subsystem;a ground transportation carrier moveable along the ground transportation carrier rails; andwherein the plurality of ground transportation rails are configured to enable the ground transportation carriers to reach at least a position where the ground transportation carriers can cooperate with the low elevated crane and to ensure that the ground transportation carriers are not in a same plane with any low elevated flat carriers on any tier of the low elevated transfer system, the ground transportation carrier having an ability to rotate to an angle between the first direction and the second direction with or without a container; anda plurality of yard cranes operable for loading and unloading containers on and off a yard and the ground transportation carrier, the plurality of yard cranes being disposed on yard crane rails that are arranged along the second direction, the yard crane rails being configured to enable the plurality of yard cranes to reach at least a position where the yard cranes can cooperate with the ground transportation carrier and a position where the plurality of yard cranes can cooperate with the yard.