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CAPS Capacity planning for container terminals

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Introduction

Important parameters for container terminal capacity

technical features operation time (technical) dwell time handling system

vessel type

capacity of ship to shore cranes

terminal stacking capacity annual working time

area

vessel size

stacking height

quay capacity number of gantries quay length / berths vessel length

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Source: Burkhard Lemper: Efficiency of the seaport container throughput market of the north range

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Introduction

Capacity planning for container terminals

Targets Where is the bottleneck of the terminal? Quay or stacking area? With how much throughput does a terminal cope with the existing capacity? Quay evaluation Is there sufficient quay length to operate a given container volume? What is the utilization of the quay? What is the number of quay cranes required to handle the container volume? Area evaluation Is there a sufficient number of stacking slots? What is the utilization of the stacking area?

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Introduction

Example of application

Quay length: yearly throughput: share of transhipment: share of 40ct.: storage capacity: peak month: vessel types:

1,500 meters 1,500,000 TEU 60% 60% 33,268 TEU October (140%) jumbo and medium (main vessels), feeder vessels

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Input

Input of general terminal data

yearly throughput

container mix monthly peaks

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Input

Information about the container stacking area

max. area utilisation container dwell time

available slots to store containers of different types

Area utilisation before simulation starts calculation or manual input

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Input

Definition of vessel types

details of quay usage

details of vessel types and vessel sub-types

details of throughput distribution

measurements details of quay performance

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Input

Throughput flow

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Throughput distribution
total throughput flow

share of main vessel throughput

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Input

Weekly vessel distribution

Development of an average weekly vessel schedule

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Input

Quay editor

definition of landside and quay side terminal boundaries

drawing of any desired quay with the quay editor

Usable quay length

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Input

Input of vessel schedules

vessel type arrival time deviations throughput QC performance container mix

input of single vessels

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Simulation

Simulation
Simulation period: 1 year Preliminary time:

2 weeks (for pre-occupancy of quay and stacks

Simulation - single run for configuration check - several runs for evaluation of the checked configuration Saving of simulation results - data of each single run are saved - data of all runs are averaged and saved

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Animation

Animation of a simulation run

3D animation of the quay Animation of the area utilisation On-line animation during a simulation run Supplementary animation for fault analyses The last simulation run is recorded as a film which can be turned back and forward. Adaptation of the animation speed according to the requirements Zoom and sight onto the terminal from various perspectives

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Animation

Animation of a simulation run

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Statistics

Evaluation of simulation results

Quay evaluation
quay utilisation - maximum and average no. of used quay cranes - maximum and average

Vessel evaluation
berthing time and waiting time - maximum and average (separated in vessel types) rejected vessels - waiting time over maximum crane performance - minimum, maximum and average

Area evaluation

Evaluation of the area utilisation regarding to capacity overrun as we as maximum utilisation overrun

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Statistics

Evaluation of a single run - overview

survey of simulation results / seaside

Survey of the maximum number of cranes used for each month and simulation run

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Statistics
evaluation of the vessel types Feeder, Medium, Jumbo Total evaluation

evaluation of the crane performance

evaluation of the area and quay utilisation

weekly vessel distribution

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Statistics

Vessel distribution

monthly arrivals of Feeder, Medium and Jumbo vessels

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Contact

Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics

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