We just received a faxed copy of a listing of the revised Rules and Regulations of an East Coast Terminal’s Schedule of Hourly and Per Lift Equipment
Rates. This listing is readily available and easily recognized, and this is what the pricing schedule looks like:

Mobile Crane (house) per lift $ 448.00
Container Crane $ 1011.00
Straddle Carrier $ 265.00
Top Loader (60,000 lbs.) $ 173.00
Forklifts 10,000 lbs. $ 25.60
Forklifts 10,001 lbs. to 15,000 lbs. $ 31.56
Forklifts 15,001 lbs. to 25,000 lbs. $ 56.82
Stacker 35,000 lbs. capacity $ 88.37
Hustler $ 65.71
Flatbeds $ 19.60
Empty Handler $ 173.00
Portable Lights per unit per day $ 182.00
Transtainer (RTG) $ 530.00

The above-listed equipment and the quoted pricing are typical of the container handling equipment and pricing in all U.S. and foreign container terminals.
Our commentaries frequently use the term “conventionally-structured” when referring to U.S. and foreign container terminals in order to distinguish these
primitive operations from the patented system described throughout this website. The official rates listed above give us the opportunity to become
more specific with the description of our system and enables us to emphasize the high degree of efficiency and the enormous savings in cost when our
system’s operation is compared to “conventionally-structured” facilities.

There are 13 items in the above list. Apart from the purchase price of these items and the number of pieces required, the constant operation of these pieces
has a price tag in time as well as in money. Our patented system, on the other hand, requires none of the above equipment, except for container cranes. The
moving illustration on this website’s “Method of Operation” page shows container cranes offloading containers and positioning them on a conveyor
belt. After scanning/inspection by U.S. Customs, these containers are taken by four-pronged forklifts and positioned in preassigned slots within the
movable racks of the storage and retrieval system. That’s all there is to the storage aspects of our patented operation. Container crane, conveyor belt and
forklift. The entire operation is programmed weeks in advance, and the savings in space, time and money are as considerable as they are obvious.
Obvious, yes … but there are none so blind as those who will not see.

In black and white, however, is the measured area required for the storage portion of our patented operation, as seen in the “Method of Operation” page.
The system pictured handles 600,000 TEUs annually on just 5.62 acres. [Our in-house delivery system is the frosting on the cake, though.]