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New station underpins Southampton safety

[ September 19, 2023   //   ]

DP World has introduced a remote ‘pinning’ station at its Southampton container terminal. ‘Pinning’ is the process of manually placing a twistlock into the corner casting of a container to keep it in place at sea. For the past 50 years, twistlocks were put in and taken out on the quayside, directly underneath container-bearing cranes.

DP World says that the hub, the first of its kind in the world, will improve safety and productivity. The station is the size of two football pitches and is set 150 yards from the quay to further protect workers.

DP Word’s ambition is to move 35 containers an hour. The Southampton hub already achieved two successive records for container handling earlier this year. In April, the team recorded 9,416 container moves in just 88 hours from Hapag-Lloyd’s Al Nefud. This was made possible by a new operating model, which enabled workers to concentrate more cranes on the vessel while continuing to service other customers at the same time.

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