OPTIMIZING THE USE OF A CONTAINERSHIP BERTH
Total system costs, including those of berths, cranes, storage yards, dock labor, ships, containers, and cargo, are minimized for single-berth containership terminals under various assumptions. The analytic model accounts for queueing delays to ships, mutual interference among cranes, minimum work shifts, and storage yard requirements. Results indicate that total system costs per ship or per ton of cargo can be significantly decreased by increasing the number of cranes per berth and berth use above current levels. The results are especially sensitive to labor costs and work rules.
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Authors:
- Schonfeld, Paul
- Frank, Stephen
- Publication Date: 1984
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- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 56-62
- Monograph Title: Economic analysis of transportation investments and economic development
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record
- Issue Number: 984
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Containerization; Intermodal terminals; Labor costs; Maritime industry; Optimization; Porosimeters; Shipbuilding
- Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Marine Transportation; Society; Terminals and Facilities; I10: Economics and Administration;
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- Accession Number: 00399872
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 0309037689
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Feb 28 1986 12:00AM