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Analysis of berth allocation and inspection operations in a container terminal

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  • Yongpei Guan

    (Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA)

  • Kang-hung Yang

    (Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung Li, Taiwan 32023, ROC)

Abstract

Nowadays, approximately 90 per cent of the world's cargoes are moved by vessels, and the majority of general cargoes are transported in containers. Accordingly, a container terminal becomes one of the important nodes in the global supply chain network and it is important to make container terminals operate efficiently. Meanwhile, after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, the US Government has proposed and implemented several approaches to improve security systems, including container security inspection operations. These operations may make an inspection center a bottleneck in container terminal operations. In this article, we analyze the container terminal berth allocation and inspection operation systems to find out a proper service rate so that potential bottlenecks can be avoided. We derive lower bounds of the service rate of the inspection center for the deterministic processing time case and perform simulation experiments to validate the lower bounds under stochastic processing time settings.

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  • Yongpei Guan & Kang-hung Yang, 2010. "Analysis of berth allocation and inspection operations in a container terminal," Maritime Economics & Logistics, Palgrave Macmillan;International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), vol. 12(4), pages 347-369, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:marecl:v:12:y:2010:i:4:p:347-369
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    1. Qin, Tianbao & Du, Yuquan & Sha, Mei, 2016. "Evaluating the solution performance of IP and CP for berth allocation with time-varying water depth," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 87(C), pages 167-185.
    2. Branislav Dragović & Ernestos Tzannatos & Nam Kuy Park, 2017. "Simulation modelling in ports and container terminals: literature overview and analysis by research field, application area and tool," Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, Springer, vol. 29(1), pages 4-34, March.
    3. Bierwirth, Christian & Meisel, Frank, 2015. "A follow-up survey of berth allocation and quay crane scheduling problems in container terminals," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 244(3), pages 675-689.
    4. Coen H. H. Battum & Bart Wiegmans & Bilge Atasoy & Erwin Wingerden & Arjen Waal & Lóránt A. Tavasszy, 2023. "Performance improvements in container terminals through the bottleneck mitigation cycle," Maritime Economics & Logistics, Palgrave Macmillan;International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), vol. 25(1), pages 174-195, March.

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