A Modelling and Simulation Methodology for Managing the Riga Harbour Container Terminal

Merkuryev, Yuri; Tolujew, Juri; Blümel, Eberhard; Novitsky, Leonid; Ginters, Egils; Викторова, Е В; Merkuryeva, Galina; Pronins, Jurijs

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“…(1) The data corresponds to the first four-month period of 2003. It is a representative period and it has been assumed as basis for the analysis.…”

Section: Estuary Navigation and Characteristics Of The Portmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We have not been able to find many scientific references studying simulation of freight transportation in ports. Most of them are inspired in the Baltic tradition, for example, Merkuryev et al (1998) [1], [2] and Merkuryeva et al (2000) [3]. Nevertheless, simulation has been used in a port context for other objectives; examples of this are the layout planning of Bruzzone et al (1998) [4]; the planning of container terminals of Silberholz et al (1991) [5], [6], Kim et al (1999) [7] and Mastrolilli et al (1998) [8], and the planning of maritime traffic of Köse et al (2003) [9].…”

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Simulation of freight traffic in the Seville inland port

Cortés

Muñuzuri

Ibanez

et al. 2007

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

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The Port of Seville is an inland port located in the Guadalquivir River in the south of Spain and it is the unique Spanish inland port. Our research is focused on the simulation of the freight transport process beginning with the movement through the whole estuary of the river and finishing with the vessels arriving to the port dependencies, where the logistic operators' load and unload processes take place.The simulation presented in the paper is carried out with Arena software and considers all the types of cargo existing in the Seville Port: containers, cereals, cements, scrap, iron and steel and fertilizers. We have simulated the navigation through the Guadalquivir estuary, the lock, the basins and the docks of the port, as well as the logistic activities in the berths. After testing several scenarios, we can state that the facilities of the Port of Seville allow to deal with the incoming logistic flows, except for momentary difficulties in the container traffic. So the improvement measures for the logistic activity must come from other alternative key actions.

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“…(1) The data corresponds to the first four-month period of 2003. It is a representative period and it has been assumed as basis for the analysis.…”

Section: Estuary Navigation and Characteristics Of The Portmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Simulation of freight traffic in the Seville inland port

Cortés

Muñuzuri

Ibanez

et al. 2007

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

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“…The models proposed by Ballis and Abacoumkin [14] for a Greek port, and by Ramani [15] for an Indian port also consider the operations of the terminal as a whole, but concentrate especially on the detailed representation of vehicle movement to try to improve traffic through the terminal. Merkuryev et al [16] present a general simulation model for a port to evaluate possible technological improvement of the terminal.…”

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Gantry crane operations to transfer containers between trains: A simulation study of a Spanish terminal

Martínez

Gutiérrez

Oliveira

et al. 2004

Transportation Planning and Technology

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Freight transfer operations are critical in combined transport networks. In this paper a simulation model and modelling approach to the transfer of cargo between trains at rail terminals is presented. The model is used to study the Port-Bou terminal, the main intermodal terminal at the Spanish-French frontier. Four different gantry crane operation modes to interchange containers between trains are evaluated. These operation rules are tested in several scenarios to examine the critical factors of the system and the best operation rule for each situation. Latest generation software is used to develop the model that incorporates modular programming and enhanced graphic systems for output representation. It allows a dynamic display of the simulated system and, likewise, the possibility of developing modules that can be reused in other studies. The research shows how simulation can be a useful planning tool in the rail transportation context.

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“…Simulation techniques have been frequently used in the recent literature concerning maritime logistics, mainly for the performance evaluation of port terminals; relevant contributions in this area are made by the following: Benacchio et al (1998), Bielli et al (2006), Canonaco et al (2007), Chung et al (1988), Hartmann (2004), Legato and Mazza (2001), Liu et al (2004), Merkuryev et al (1998), Nam et al (2002, Nevins et al (1998), Wong (2006, Ottjes et al (2006), Ramani (1996), Shabayek and Yeung (2002), Silberholz et al (1991), Thiers and Janssen (1998) and Yun and Choi (1999). The reason for a relatively wide use of simulation methods in maritime logistics is mainly due to the variety of stochastic processes involved.…”

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Modal split evaluation of a maritime container terminal

Parola

Sciomachen

2009

Marit Econ Logist

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Maritime container terminals are playing a growing role within global transport chains. As intermodal nodes between sea traffic flows and inland distribution,\ud they are very important to shipping lines. The current trend of moving towards economies of scale in regard to mother vessels is also having a tremendous impact on seaport operations and hinterland transportation in terms of ‘call size’. This paper deals with the\ud study of multimodal container flows at an Italian maritime terminal, focusing the\ud attention on the performance of road and rail connections. In this framework, the current\ud modal unbalance generates heavy problems of congestion and compromises the overall\ud terminal competitiveness. This paper applies a discrete event simulation approach, in order to evaluate the feasibility of an alternative and more balanced scenario achievable in a short-mid-term perspective. Our goal is to enhance the performance of rail connections,\ud without proposing the realisation of a new railway line which is only attainable in the long run, but trying to exploit to the full the available endowment of assets through a deep operational restructuring. Simulation runs performed in this perspective revealed\ud the adequacy of such an approach and demonstrated the successful effects of a modal\ud re-equilibrium

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A Modelling and Simulation Methodology for Managing the Riga Harbour Container Terminal

Abstract: Union (Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, etc.). The problems considered and approaches to solve them are not unique for RHCT, but are typical for growing harbours. Therefore, the results obtained could be used as a guideline for solving analogous problems at other harbours.

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Simulation of freight traffic in the Seville inland port

Simulation of freight traffic in the Seville inland port

Gantry crane operations to transfer containers between trains: A simulation study of a Spanish terminal

Modal split evaluation of a maritime container terminal

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