Containers movements cost analysis in a marine terminal

• Antonio Isalgué ^[1] ; Jesús Ezequiel Martínez Marín ^[1] ; María de Lourdes Eguren Martí ^[2]
  1. [1] Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

     Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

     Barcelona, España

     
  2. [2] Universitat de Barcelona

     Universitat de Barcelona

     Barcelona, España

     
• Localización: Maritime Transport'14 / coord. por Francisco Javier Martínez de Osés, Marcella Castells Sanabra, 2014, ISBN 978-84-9880-483-6, págs. 514-523
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In a marine terminal, logistics of container movements and arrangement can certainly affect the benefit that terminals, carriers and ship-owners can get. They may even lead to costs difficult to bear by the shipping companies. Container logistics management understood from the time that a container is discharged at a port, can be defined as a set of financial transactions, and based on the logistic principle that every movement generates a cost. Based on this principle, it arises the question if the cost of passage and stay of a container at a terminal can be reduced through an efficient allocation of space arises. Given the land’s extension of a terminal, the costs of port land, the prices that placements and movements of containers involve, as well as their horizontal and vertical positioning, this work seeks to make an analytical study to check whether the assumption of an efficient allocation is fulfilled. We are based on a specific case-study. From a given example, we consider the limit of practical resistance and safety, the maximum height of stacks, the containers before their new settings, the terminal size, the movement cost, the cost of getting the container below if other above (swapping of containers), and the ratio ‘cost of movements and machinery / cost of space (ground)’. We try to find a reasonable optimum comparing several possible configurations.