Robots Replace Dock Workers
Posted on December 19th, 2005 by admin in Latest News
Patrick Corp recently announced that all three of it’s Brisbane docks would be completely automated.
If a person even enters the shipping yard all of the machinery will shut down. Eighteen of the new robotic machines, called container straddlers, are being installed at a cost of $1.5 million dollars each. They are expected to cause a 20% increase in productivity. The employees who used to drive the container straddlers are being relocated.
With Brisbane fully automated, Corrigan plans to introduce the same technology into the company’s waterfront operations in Sydney over the next two years, and Melbourne and Fremantle by 2008.
If a person even enters the shipping yard all of the machinery will shut down. Eighteen of the new robotic machines, called container straddlers, are being installed at a cost of $1.5 million dollars each. They are expected to cause a 20% increase in productivity. The employees who used to drive the container straddlers are being relocated.
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