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Revision 2026-08-20-claim-baseline · effective 2026-07-26
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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 6 claims and 8 source dossiers.
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add /evidencePassport — Added claim-level evidence mapping and source dossiers.add /revisionHistory — Established a permanent, hash-addressed baseline revision.The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.
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Korea's first fully automated container terminal opened at Busan New Port in April 2024: the West Container Terminal's Phase 2-5, three berths run by Dongwon Global Terminal Busan on a quay the Busan Port Authority built for about 1.14 trillion won
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Yard cranes and driverless carriers work unsupervised; the nine ship-to-shore cranes are still remote-controlled by staff, because wind and swell move the ship
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Most equipment is Korean-built, though 12 of the first 55 carriers came from Dutch supplier VDL
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Dockworkers' unions oppose port automation; here the operator relocated and retrained an existing North Port crew rather than cutting it
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Three berths rated at 1.95 million TEU a year, watched by about 32 control-room staff; the operator projects 20-30% higher productivity than semi-automated berths, a forecast rather than a measured result
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The union settlement at Busan held because an entire existing crew was moved across from an older berth and retrained, not replaced
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src-0139ea785673b5acOperator DGT, opening April 2024, 9 quay cranes, 46 yard cranes, 60 AGVs, 1,050 m quay, 20 m depth, 1.95m TEU capacity; states quay cranes are remote-controlled while yard cranes and AGVs run automatically, and carries the 20-30% productivity projection.
src-abce279f1674a385Opening on 5 April 2024 as Busan New Port Pier 7 (West Container Terminal Phase 2-5), operator Dongwon Global Terminal Busan, control room in operation, equipment counts.
src-d633d3143fbb8638Total project cost 1.144 trillion won, developed directly by the Busan Port Authority; initial AGV fleet of 55 units, 43 by Hyundai Rotem and 12 imported from VDL of the Netherlands; about 32 monitoring staff; a DGT executive quoted on displaced crane labour.
src-e6f0d124ba3d6bf2BPA and DGT agreement to transfer all existing workers: 260 succeeding workers, 132 of them Busan Port Transport Union members, 54 retrained on automated equipment and 9 union members trained as remote crane operators; the union cites a 2021 Korea Labor Institute estimate of 70-80% job loss from full automation.
src-32f359d0a2c8f977Quay completed October 2023 ahead of commercial opening: 3 berths, 1,050 m, 837,237 sq m, 1.95m TEU annual capacity, about 340bn won spent on domestically made handling equipment.
src-0fd28ae9b4f6629eScale context for the host port: Busan handled 24.88 million TEU in 2025, up 2.0% on 24.40 million in 2024, with transshipment at 14.1 million TEU.
src-2e7603106e4b8b60Currency check, July 2025: a further AGV order takes Hyundai Rotem's cumulative delivery to DGT to 100 vehicles, confirming the terminal is operating and expanding.
src-6fa3366392c094d8English-language confirmation of the launch as South Korea's first automated container terminal and of the ministry's up-to-20% productivity projection.