Evaluating seaport operation and capacity analysis—preliminary methodology

Bassan, Shy

doi:10.1080/03088830601102725

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“…Journal papers limit their focus to particular cases, such as more efficient optimization of box shipping [35], maritime security and security initiatives [36][37][38], port operation, competition and capacity [39,40] optimal investment in port capacity [41], the role of port authorities in a changing port environment [42], the role of ports in value chains [8][9][10]43]. Little attention is given to the overall maritime supply chain vulnerability picture.…”

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Failure modes in the maritime transportation system: a functional approach to throughput vulnerability

Berle

Rice

Asbjørnslett

2011

Maritime Policy & Management

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Maritime Transportation Systems (MTSs) are essential for world trade; it is crucial to understand how these systems may fail, to be able to maintain their capacity. In this paper, the MTS is seen as a throughput mechanism; a technical system which serves its purpose by moving goods for its dependents. Understanding which key functions and capabilities are prerequisite for the ability to move goods, the loss of which are the failure modes, allows for the creation of a 'business continuity plan' for the MTS. Through two surveys and interviews with maritime transportation industry stakeholders, it was observed that while stakeholders in the industry have a solid focus on frequent operational risks, there is a lack of awareness of vulnerabilities, as well as methods for addressing and planning for low-frequency high-impact disruption scenarios. The presented approach provides a structured set of matrices of the key functions of the MTS, allowing stakeholders to increase the system's resilience through preparing to restore this limited number of critical functions.

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Section: Previous Researchmentioning

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Failure modes in the maritime transportation system: a functional approach to throughput vulnerability

Berle

Rice

Asbjørnslett

2011

Maritime Policy & Management

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“…The study's results were mixed and Barros concluded that public policies did not necessarily lead to better performance. Bassan (2007) proposed an evaluation tool for port operation and capacity analysis, although his failure to take institutional factors (including ownership and policies) into account (other than merely mentioning their potential influences) has limited its empirical applicability.…”

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An Analysis of the Dynamics of Ownership, Capacity Investments and Pricing Structure of Ports

Xiao

Yang

et al. 2012

Transport Reviews

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With more than 80% of the world's cargoes being transported by sea, effective port management is critical to the well-being of the global economy. This study models the effects of port ownership and governance on capacity investment and pricing structure, and these changes' implications on port service level and social welfare. The study argues that capacity investment and pricing are significantly influenced by a port's ownership form, and the different levels of government involved. Inter-port competition leads to increased capacity investments by private investors and local authorities, which can be either higher or lower than social optimal level. Therefore, it is important for policymakers to consider the effects of institutional and competition factors in port reform initiatives.

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“…Port terminal capacity is defined as the amount of cargo that can be handled by a port per time period (Bassan 2007). The first contributions related to capacity analysis at the yard of a Container Terminal are presented by (Dally 1983;Hoffman 1985;Dharmalingam 1987), where storage capacity at the yard is estimated as a function of container dwell times, the number of stacking containers, and the container storage space available expressed in TEUs, among other factors.…”

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A Dwell Time-based Container Positioning Decision Support System at a Port Terminal

Gaete¹,

González-Araya

González-Ramírez

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems

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In this article, a methodology as well as a decision support system for the container storage assignment at a yard of a container terminal is proposed. The motivation of the proposed methodology are the cases of container terminals where inland flows present high levels of uncertainty and variability. This situation is typical of ports in developing countries such as is the case in Latin America where due to lack of automation, there are many paper-based procedures and little coordination with the hinterland. The proposed methodology is based on a dwell time segregated storage policy, considering only import containers (due to the difficulty to determine segregation criteria for this type of containers). Dwell times are discretized in order to determine dwell time classes or segregations, so that containers of the same segregation are assigned to close locations at the yard. As a case study, the port of Arica in Chile is considered. A discrete-event simulation model is also proposed to estimate potential benefits of the proposed methodology. Numerical results for the case study show a good performance, with potential reduction of the rehandles incurred.

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Evaluating seaport operation and capacity analysis—preliminary methodology

Cited by 37 publications

References 7 publications

Failure modes in the maritime transportation system: a functional approach to throughput vulnerability

Failure modes in the maritime transportation system: a functional approach to throughput vulnerability

An Analysis of the Dynamics of Ownership, Capacity Investments and Pricing Structure of Ports

A Dwell Time-based Container Positioning Decision Support System at a Port Terminal

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