A Study of Container Terminal Planning

A container port must be planned to satisfy prompt accommodation of ships with minimum waiting time in port, and with maximum use of berth facilities. Somewhere between these opposing objectives each container port must reach a compromise, the number of berths which will achieve the most economical transfer of cargo between ships and shore. Computational experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of the developed models using real data collected from the Korean container terminals. The effects of various practical considerations on the performance of the suggested planning process are tested numerically and by using a simulation study.