Simulation Modelling of Ship-Berth Link With Priority Service

Abstract

Simulation of the logistics activities related to the arrival, berthing, service and departure processes of ships in container ports can be carried out for different goals such as design of ship-berth link, increase productivity and efficiency of quay cranes, analysis and planning of operations at the ship-berth link, etc. These logistics activities are particularly complex and very costly since they require the combined use of expensive infrastructure capacities especially berths and quay cranes. Ship-berth link as a main port link is required to serve ships as quickly as possible. Thus, in order to successfully design and develop ship-berth link in a container port and utilise it as efficiently as possible, it is necessary to develop a simulation model that will support decision-making processes of terminal managers. The results, analysis and conclusions given in this paper are intended to provide guidance on achieving time efficiency and accuracy in the modelling of ship-berth link and calibration of ship-berth link simulation models for Pusan East Container Terminal (PECT). Maritime Economics & Logistics (2005) 7, 316–335. doi:10.1057/palgrave.mel.9100141

A survey of berth allocation and quay crane scheduling problems in container terminals

“…Berthing of a vessel apart from its desired berthing position misc Miscellaneous Lai and Shih (1992), Legato and Mazza (2001), Henesey et al (2004), and Dragovic et al (2005Dragovic et al ( , 2006. Papers containing ideas and results published elsewhere, for example Kim (2005) and Crainic and Kim (2007), are also excluded.…”

Ship-berth link and demurrage costs: evaluating different allocation policies and queue priorities via simulation

“…According to Dragovic et al (2005), the interarrival time distribution is a basic input parameter that has to be presumed or inferred from observed data. In literature, The processing times at berth for each ship were assumed to be normally distributed and their means are also given in Table 2 Since the container terminal is relatively small, with only two berths, another simplification in the SBL model was taken.…”

“…In such cases, the use of simulation as a planning tool has been of growing importance to find a balance between queue priorities and the possibility to postpone such investments. Dragovic et al (2005), who have reported on several different simulation models with respect to port operations, particularly examined the impact of introducing priority for a certain class of ships on SBL performance. One of their simulation models indicated that assigning priority to smaller ships would lead to an improvement of the main operational parameters, like the average number of ships in queue and the average time a ship spends in queue.…”

“…This still remains to be tested. According to Dragovic et al (2005), as cost is a key measure in the selection of alternative strategies to the SBL problem, further research needs to incorporate a cost analysis in order to identify the most appropriate combination of berth allocation policies and queue priorities in a given context.…”

A system dynamics approach to operational and strategic planning of a container terminal

“…There are many studies conducted at container terminals, but many of these studies focus either only on the berth side (e.g., Bierwirth and Meusel, 2009;Dragovic et al, 2005;Imai et al, 2007;Monaco and Sammarra, 2007;Moorthy and Teo, 2006;Razman and Khalid, 2000) or only on the yard side (e.g., Chen, 1999;Chen et al, 2004;Han et al, 2008;Kim and Kim, 2002;Kim and Park, 2003;Kim et al, 2008;Legato et al, 2009;Ma and Hadjiconstantinou, 2008;Zhang et al, 2003). The complexity and dynamic nature of the container terminal operations resulted in difficulties in using analytical tools as the method of investigation.…”