Patent ID: 7665945

Claim:
A system on land for transfer of containers between ship and land, said system comprising cranes for loading or unloading containers, and transfer stations for transfer of containers operationally associated with the cranes, the transfer stations including an upper platform for reception and support of a container from and to one of the cranes, and a lower platform for loading or unloading of containers into or out of the station, and a centering and elevator device operationally present between the upper platform and the lower platform, the centering and elevator device receiving and sending said container directly from and to said one of the cranes at the upper platform and performing transfer of said container between the upper platform and the lower platform without intervention of said one of the cranes, the centering and elevator device including telescopic elevators, the telescopic elevators including actuators for tilting on sides of a container receiving area in the upper platform thereby guiding a container lowered by said one of the cranes on supports of the elevators, the upper platform including two positions placed at short ends of a container reception zone in the upper platform with each of said two positions bearing a pair of said telescopic elevators and powered to be mobile in a direction parallel to a long axis of the container and able to approach and withdraw from the other position.