Expansion Planning at Container Terminals

Kastner, Marvin; Lange, Ann-Kathrin; Jahn, Carlos

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-44783-0_11

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“…This gap can also be found in the research focusing on other logistics facilities such as container terminals. [16][17][18] By studying the literature, it can be found that there are few studies that specifically examine the delays created in the process of rail transport of minerals; they concentrate only on the performance of an unloading terminal such that they suggest some policies affecting the loading terminal without analyzing their effect on either the performance of the loading terminal or on the network as a whole. Therefore, the present study considers an origin-destination network consisting of two loading and unloading stations, and also takes the intermediate stations into account.…”

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Improving operational efficiency of iron ore logistics by rail using simulation

Mehranfar

Bagheri

Seyedvakili³

et al. 2021

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This paper aims to identify and evaluate the bottlenecks and wastes in the loading, unloading, and in-transit processes of iron ore railcars using simulation. A field survey was conducted in one of the largest steel factories and a mine, and each process time was extracted using the work-study and time-study methods. The data for more than 34 thousand railcars were collected from the database of the steel company, Iran Rail Transport company, and a private rail transport company. Seven scenarios have been developed according to (a) operations management, (b) equipment procurement, and (c) infrastructure development. It was found that utilization of the automated loading system would improve performance by 20%. This causes a 24% increase in railcars’ turnover, which means obtaining US$10,000 additional income per railcar. It was expected, it would improve performance. Conversely, adding a railcar tippler and developing the tracks reduces performance.

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confidence: 99%