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KAIST Mobile Harbor Project
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 What is Mobile Harbor?
Novel maritime transport solution
that can connect a large containership anchored
in the open sea and ports with shallow water
• Execute high speed loading and unloading in the wavy open sea
• Deploy original, advanced technologies
Large
Large
Containership
Containership
Large
Containership
Draft
Draft 15m
15m
Draft 15m
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Shallow
Shallow or
or
Congested
Congested port
port
Shallow or
Congested port
 Motivation (1)
Continued increase
in global container shipping
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Global container
volume increases by
~8% a year
Required handling
capacity expansion is
4-5 Busan Ports
Rise of supersized
containerships
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Global container volume
(in million TEU)
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Economy of scale leads
to increasing number of
mega containerships
Expansion of Panama
canal expedites the trend
Need for enhanced port
capacity and capability
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Effective service for
large containerships
Increased importance
of transshipment cargo
handling
 Motivation (2)
Environmental damage
by port construction
CO2 from massive
Overland transportation
National security
Prohibitively large
SOC Investment
Mobile Harbor
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 Immediate Market Candidate
• Limitation in port expansion
N. AMERICA
EUROPE
ASIA
• Limitation in
port expansion
AFRICA
• Shallow water
• Panama Canal region
• Undeveloped
port infrastructrure
• Port congestion
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OCEANIA
S. AMERICA
 Mobile Harbor Product Line
•Product lines to satisfy diverse needs of individual ports
• Transfer unit and loading unit Integrated (A type) & Separated (B type)
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 Mobile Harbor Product Line
A1-250
•Technically most challenging system
(stabilization, loading/unloading)
• Economical size (small capacity, short range)
• Access to shallow water including river, strait
A1-1200
• Stable, high-speed container handling
(plural cranes onboard)
• Serves 8,000~10,000TEU containerships within 48hr
• Mid-to-long range transport
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 Mobile Harbor Product Line
B1
• Uni-body motion
• High stability and operational efficiency
• Suitable for ports with high container
volume
B2
• Operating under ship-to-ship docking
• Single or plural cranes
• Flexibility to achieve optimal system
configuration
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 Program Structure
Original tech. development, basic design,
Market analysis, Tech. holding company
Univ. (Ulsan Univ, Pusan Nat’l Univ, SNU)
Research collaboration
Research Institute(KIMM,MOERI,KMI,KR)
Collaborative R&D
Public companies, Shipping lines
(K-Water, Port Authority)
Program consulting, Customer
Corporates (Hyundai-Wia, DSME,
STX Offshore&Shipbuilding, Keumwon Eng.)
Detail design & production,
Program consulting, Marketing
Local government/Overseas
(Jeju-do,UCW America,Deloitte)
Customer, Workforce education & training
Large scale
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Short period
Focus
Integration
Roles
Affiliated Parties
KAIST(Mobile Harbor Project),MH Co.
 Goals of Mobile Harbor Project (2009)
Mobile Harbor Technology Development
and Capability Demonstration
Develop original technology and secure IP
Design pilot system and demonstrate core capability
Develop product lines and business model
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 Roadmap
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 Mobile Harbor Technology
• Stabilization of floating
platform
• Robust structure design
• Floating platform
validation
Floating
Platform
System Design
&
Container Transport Network
• Optimal system architecture
MH Berth
Interface
• Mobile Harbor berth
interface design
• Operation system
• Transport effectiveness
Highly-efficient
Loading System
Docking &
Mooring
• Highly efficient
loading/unloading system
• Container transfer system
• Performance testing
• Economic and market analysis
• Global maritime cargo transport
network analysis
• Automated docking
• Ship-to-ship mooring
• Performance testing
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 Key Technologies
 ZMC[Zero Moment Crane]
 Ship-to-Ship docking
 Spreader cable control
 Spreader position control
 High-speed transfer at a berth
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 Key Technologies
 ZMC[Zero Moment Crane]
<Zero moment trolley: D4 type>
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 Ship-to-Ship Docking
 Robot Arm with Vacuum Suction Pad and Winch Cable
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< Quay Crane Type >
< Robot Arm Model >
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< Tower Crane Type >
 Spreader Cable Control
• Up-and-down motion of Mobile Harbor caused
by ocean waves is compensated by controlling
the length of cables holding a spreader.
• With this control mechanism,
a spreader of the Mobile Harbor crane is able to
smoothly land on a target container
in the presence of heaving (up-and-down)
motion of the Mobile Harbor floating body.
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 Spreader Position Control
• A motion control system has been
developed to achieve precise
positioning of a spreader to engage
with a container below.
• This system uses eight sensors to
measure the deviation of the current
spreader position and employs a virtual
force algorithm and a container pattern
detection algorithm.
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 High-Speed transfer at a Berth
• A Mobile Harbor berth based on Roll-on Roll-off concept has been designed
to enable fast transfer of containers on board a Mobile Harbor to a yard
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 Progress to Date
Program Progress by Mobile Harbor Center
• Mobile Harbor Idea initiated in 2007
• Mobile Harbor Center established (2009. 4)
• System Patent awarded (2) and filed (49)
• Participated in New Growth Engine Exhibition (5/26-5/28, KINTEX)
• Open House (8/13~8/14)
• Participated in Incheon International Logistics & Materials
Handling Exhibition (9/8-9/11, Songdo Convensia)
• Received TOI ($6.25mil) issued by Hyundai-Wia (9/28)
• Received LOI ($16.6mil) for investment issued by DSME (9/29)
• Demonstrate the Mobile Harbor in an ocean water basin (12/15)
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 Progress to Date
Overseas Market Development Progress
• Marketing trip to North/Latin America and Initiated business discussion (7/17~23)
• Collaboration with UCW America (7/31)
• Identifying immediate potential market
(Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, North America, Yellow Sea region)
• Identifying several business models for Southeast Asia region
• Received MOU(related to commercialization) issued by Macquarie (10/21)
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 Expected Benefits
Technological
• Mobile Harbor technology leadership
• Role model for national R&D funding program
• Apply developed technology to other fields
• Export and promote related industries
Socioeconomic
• Create economic value by innovating maritime cargo
transport
• Increase transshipment market share
• Develop workforce in high technology
• Innovate cargo transport system that has been heavily
Environmental
relying on overland transport
• Low-CO2 green growth
• Reduce environmental damage by port construction
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 Lessons from History: Mechanical innovation

Steam Engine, James Watt 1784: Industrial Revolution
 Double acting cylinder
 6-bar Watt mechanism
 Drastic increase in efficiency
and product life
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The first airplane, Wright brothers 1903
 Solved lift and roll control :
Wing warping
 1903, 12 sec flight at10ft
 1908, flying time of an hour
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Thank you
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