Ro-ro terminals (ii). Receipt and delivery.

The load flow points between which the terminal is responsible for loading:

First Point Of Rest (FPOR) or location from which the terminal takes responsibility for the vehicle or load.
Last Point Of Rest (LPOR) or place from which that responsibility ends

This issue is of particular interest in vehicular traffic without registering

For shipping / receiving export vehicles materializes as follows:

They arrive at the terminal by road (rarely by rail) in large multi-transport vehicle trailers.
These multi platforms access a FPOR reception located near door of the terminal where park in 5x25m slots, and from where the vehicles are unloaded in a row.
For each platform two rows of 8 cars are expected.
Since this block is going after the general store moving vehicles, making room for arrivals on other platforms.

In the case of landing / import:

When you get to take the multi-platform destination, they are transported from the warehouse to delivery LPOR:
- Location with a similar arrangement of the previous image.
- Also located in the vicinity of the doors, but with a reverse to the aforementioned operation, so the muti-vehicle platforms for his departure from the terminal are loaded.
It could be taken into account whether this LPOR also count as FPOR, although in this case it is used only as temporary storage, as access to multi platforms is not so immediate. In general, as the uses of FPOR and LPOR not usually simultaneous, sometimes has a unique area that acts as the case with either function.

As for the port arrangement is usually solved by pathways that access to an area with ramps (these ramps can be transportable), which allows loading or unloading trains from behind.
As the vehicles are not on the road yet, trains to bring vehicles to the terminal (railway receipt) have had to be loaded in own factories.
The opposite (vehicles carried by rail –railway delivery-) is also doubtful: where are carried well? To a dry port or similar area, equipped with exchange zone?). This makes many terminals of this type (particularly those devoted exclusively to imports) do not have a railway gate.

At the door of the terminal there will be one or several booths that indicate the location of the terminal where they should deliver / collect the platform.
To this end, if the traffic is not intense the driver goes directly to the storage area to leave-collecting platform.
If instead it is a very heavy traffic, would provide a parking area next to the park gate where the driver / platform collects, and where you will collect / take a tractor terminal. This option is interesting if traffic is intense (and the driver enters the terminal, reducing the accident), or if the merchandise is special. In this way, the internal organization of the platforms are made by the terminal at the time deemed appropriate and not forced by the presence of the driver of the cargo; although this involves more space available, means and personnel.