Port Management Volume II-Annexures Report Based on the Study of Visakhapatnam Port

Abstract

In this case, capacity is limited by low wagon loading rate. If more gangs are employed for this purpose, the rate of handling food grains can be raised to 195 tonnes/hrs. which again can go up to 259 tonnes/hrs. if time taken for making sling is reduced to 1.5 minutes. For this purpose, there should be 11 men for sling making instead of 8.