RCH is currently negotiating with ports, ocean carriers, stevedoring and engineering firms concerning licences to own and operate Robotic technology and Asia is expected to be the most fertile market for the Machine as its combined structures and equipment can be erected on 20 hectares of land, Dunstan said. The RCH concept incorporates custom-designed container cranes similar to those now being used in most of the world's ports, except that they function as parts of the Machine rather than independently. Two rolling transporters serve each crane.
Further movement is carried out by shafted bridge cranes moving between the storage racks.
From the racks, containers can either be directed to waiting double-stack railway cars, chassis or, by overhead monorail, to a nearby container freight station. The empty boxes are moved by overhead crane from the ECS to transporters on the upland receiving balcony of the random access structure. The transporters shuttle containers into or out of storage spaces in the structure where, like full boxes, they are handled by the shafted bridge cranes. It can also load and unload more than 250 trucks per hour. The simulation also confirmed that 2,440 lineal metres of double-stack railway cars can be loaded and unloaded and more than 50,000 boxes processed each month, with 14,000 units capable of being stored on site.