OPTIMAL DESIGN OF CONTAINER TERMINAL LAYOUT Debjit Roy Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Gujarat, India
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Due to rapid growth in foreign trade using sea vessels, there is a growing focus in improving the infrastructure and operational efficiencies at the container terminals. Particularly, the operational responsiveness of loading and unloading of containers, affects the vessel idle times and profitability of the shipping liners. In this research, we determine optimal stack layout design, which minimizes the container unload times using Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs). To analyze alternate stack layout designs, we develop integrated queuing network models that capture the stochastic interactions among the container terminal processes (quayside, vehicle transport, and stackside), and provides realistic estimates of expected container unload throughput times. 1 Background and Motivation Due to growth in international trade and better accessibility to the major seaports via deep-sea vessels, containerization has become the preferred mode for maritime shipping and inland transportation. Between 1990 and 2008, container traffic has grown from 28.7 million TEU to 152.0 million TEU, an increase of about 430% ([3]). Currently, several new deep-sea as well as inland container terminals are being designed across continents. Several of the larger ones will be automated. The design of the container terminal includes strategic design choices such as the terminal layout at the stackside, choice of equipment for handling containers at the seaside and landside, and type of vehicles for container transport between seaside and the landside. However, the process to arrive at an optimal design is extremely
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