PERATIONS OPTIMIZATION AT TKD CONTAINER TERMINAL
Keywords:
container terminals, container yard, storage capacity, yard block, yard layout ptimization, block size, rehandling moves, and terminal operationAbstract
The development of containerization and its incessant expansion comprises alterations and technological
advances in container terminals. In the current period of “vastness”, regardless of existing fleet congestion, container
companies increasing the intake of containers at the terminals to take advantage from economies of scale and to decrease
operating costs. Subsequently, container terminals dealing with the problem of service delay.In dainty of this, this reportis
concentrating on the optimization of handling operations in the container yard, which is most important and complex area
of terminal on which terminal efficiency mainly depends. In precise, it attempts to: (1) determine optimized size of block
storage in the container or storage yard; (2) developing the optimized container yard layout, in which itfocusses on each
aspectsindividually such asinternal truck’s traveled distance optimization. In order to challenge these issues, two different
analytical models are developed in this report. The first model targeted to evaluate the optimal size of each factor of
container yard block. And, second analytical model aims to minimize the total distance travelled by internal trucks during
container handling operations to facilitate optimal container yard. Finally, the numerical experiments are described in
this report to prove the practicality of the different analytical models developed by concentrating on one aim of increasing
the efficiency of container terminal. These can be useful by other researchers, organizers and terminal workers to
optimize the container terminal operations, to increase their efficiency rates and to enhance terminal throughput without
suffering large investment. Becoming technically efficient, the terminal will be more cost- efficient as well, resulting in
the overall optimization of terminal performance.The results of thisstudy describe and prove, how an infidelfactorsuch as
block storage capacity, yard layout by considering internal truck performance, etc. can enhance the efficiency of
container terminal.
