Evaluating Straddle Carrier Deployment Policies: A Simulation Study for the Piraeus Container Terminal

• Main Authors: HADJICONSTANTINOU, Eleni, MA, Nang Laik
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• Subjects: discrete event simulation; container terminal; case study; straddle carrier deployment; container assignment; Computer Sciences; Management Information Systems; Transportation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/760; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1759/viewcontent/Evaluating_straddle_carrier_deployment_policies_2009.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Most container terminals in the world today are operating up to their capacities. In this paper, we have developed a decision support system to optimise yard operations by considering all container flows (import, export and transshipment) through the yard with the view to improving the terminal perf...