Improvement of technology of work of transhipment means on container terminals of cargo stations

Introduction. The issues of transportation organization and the level of service on railway transport in the coming years should fully comply with European standards and especially in those areas that are part of transport corridors, where the bulk of cargo, except for bulk, is planned for transportation in covered rolling stock and containers. These tasks, in conditions of limited resources, require the development of optimal solutions to improve the technology and design of critical sorting and cargo stations in order to save resources and minimize the time of delivery of goods to consumers while ensuring their full safety and quality service. Purpose. This article examines the issues of optimizing the management of vehicles at container terminals in terms of priority maintenance of individual flows of containers with the achievement of the minimum reduced costs, which reflect such indicators as productivity, energy costs, range of transshipment vehicles and cargo and more. Results. According to the results of time observations, it is determined that the range of gantry cranes in the maintenance of rolling stock with large containers ranges from 34 to 66 m with strict specialization of sections and sections of container sites and from 43 to 60 m with variable specialization and different intensity of traffic; the change in the intensity of traffic under similar conditions of specialization does not significantly affect the range of cranes during loading and unloading on the site and with rigid specialization ranges from 38 to 68 m, and with variable – from 36 to 51 m; the average range of cranes when servicing medium-capacity containers is reduced from 29 to 54 m with rigid specialization and from 32 to 48 m with variable; maintenance of transit containers increases the range of cranes to an average of 84 m. Conclusions. Therefore, this work is aimed at developing a theoretical approach to the organization of handling transshipment facilities at container terminals with certain practical conclusions and recommendations for combining technological and design parameters that would create conditions to reduce the duration of rolling stock in the process of its maintenance on cargo fronts and reduce annual operating costs. That is, the introduction of optimal technology for handling transshipment facilities should be consistent with the design of the station and the container terminal, which would allow to fully implement the design parameters with minimal operating costs