Modelling and simulation of high capacity waterside container handling systems at deep-sea terminals

  • Authors:
  • F. Geldof;B. C. van Haarlem;W. Lock;E. E. Roubtsova

  • Affiliations:
  • Technical University Eindhoven, Eindhoven, the Netherlands;Iv Bouw & Industrie B.V (Iv-B&I), LD Papendrecht, the Netherlands;Iv Bouw & Industrie B.V (Iv-B&I), LD Papendrecht, the Netherlands;Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, the Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 Spring simulation multiconference
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Current handling systems at deep-sea container terminals run into their physical limits and new methods of handling containers are needed to deal with the ever-growing container shipping volumes. We present a domain specific simulation model of high capacity container handling system built in collaboration with engineers and terminal operators. The engine used for the simulation model consists of model generation, resource assignment-scheduling, processing-disposal components and animation components. The component model has been built in the ARENA tool with Visual Basic extensions. Using the model we have simulated new crane concepts: the second trolley crane concepts with two trolleys separated with a buffer platform and a carrousel crane with two trolleys and one or more transporters that connect these trolleys. The results of the simulation runs show that the second trolley crane can give 12% and the carrousel crane can give 40% percent improvement in productivity of the container handling system. The simulation model can be reused for studying some other concepts of the container handling system.