Handbook of Terminal Planning

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-19

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. General Considerations on Container Terminal Planning

      • Jürgen W. Böse

      Pages 3-22

3. Basic Aspects: Technologies & Instruments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Operations Systems of Container Terminals: A Compendious Overview

      • Birgitt Brinkmann

      Pages 25-39

   3. Automated Shuttle Carrier® Concept

      • Jari Pirhonen

      Pages 41-59

   4. Sustainable Container Terminals: A Design Approach

      • Joan C. Rijsenbrij, Armin Wieschemann

      Pages 61-82

   5. Modeling Techniques in Planning of Terminals: The Quantitative Approach

      • Yvo A. Saanen

      Pages 83-102

   6. Simulation Technology in Planning, Implementation and Operation of Container Terminals

      • Holger Schütt

      Pages 103-116

   7. Step by Step Towards the Goal

      • ma-co maritimes competenzcentrum

      Pages 117-132

4. Planning Area

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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5. Planning Area, Terminal Quayside

   1. Simulation of Container Ship Arrivals and Quay Occupation

      • Sönke Hartmann, Jennifer Pohlmann, Axel Schönknecht

      Pages 135-154

   2. A Technique to Determine the Right Crane Capacity for a Continuous Quay

      • Frank Meisel, Christian Bierwirth

      Pages 155-178

   3. Planning Approach for Dimensioning of Automated Traffic Areas at Seaport Container Terminals

      • Michael Ranau

      Pages 179-193

   4. Cost and Performance Evaluation Impacts of Container Vessels on Seaport Container Terminals

      • Günther Pawellek, Axel Schönknecht

      Pages 195-215

6. Planning Area

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217

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7. Planning Area, Terminal Yard

   1. Planning Container Terminal Layouts Considering Equipment Types and Storage Block Design

      • Jörg Wiese, Leena Suhl, Natalia Kliewer

      Pages 219-245

   2. Container Rehandling at Maritime Container Terminals

      • Marco Caserta, Silvia Schwarze, Stefan Voß

      Pages 247-269

   3. RMG Crane Scheduling and Stacking

      • Nils Kemme

      Pages 271-301

8. Planning Area

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 303-303

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Container Terminals (CT) operate as central nodes in worldwide hub-and-spoke networks and link ocean-going vessels with smaller feeder vessels as well as with inbound and outbound hinterland transportation systems using road, rail, or inland waterways. The volume of transcontinental container flows has gained appreciably over the last five decades -- throughput figures of CT reached new records, frequently with double-digit annual growth rates. Stimulated by throughput requirements and stronger competition between terminals settled in the same region or serving a similar hinterland, respectively, cost efficiency and throughput capabilities become more and more important. Nowadays, both terminal capacity and costs have to be regarded as key indicators for CT competitiveness. In respect of this steady growth, this handbook focuses on planning activities being aimed at “order of magnitude improvements” in terminal performance and economic viability. On the one hand the book is intended to provide readership with technological and organizational CT basics for strategic planning. On the other hand this book offers methodical assistance for fundamental dimensioning of CT in terms of 'technique', 'organization' or 'man'. The former primarily considers comprehensive information about container handling technologies representing the state of the art for present terminal operations, while the latter refers to methodological support comprising in particular quantitative solutions and modeling techniques for strategic terminal decisions as well as straightforward design guidelines. The handbook includes an introductory contribution which gives an overview of strategic planning problems at CT and introduces the contributions of the volume with regard to their relationship in this field. Moreover, each paper contains a section or paragraph that describes the impact of findings investigated by the author(s) for problem-solving in long-term planning of CT (as anapplication domain). The handbook intends to provide solutions and insights that are valuable for both practitioners in industry who need effective planning approaches to overcome problems and weaknesses in terminal design/development and researchers who would like to inform themselves about the state of the art in methodology of strategic terminal planning or be inspired by new ideas. That is to say, the handbook is addressed to terminal planners in practice as well as to students of maritime courses of study and (application oriented) researchers in the maritime field.

• Container Terminals
• Logistics
• Operations Research
• Port Design
• Terminal
• Transportation

• Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany

  Jürgen W. Böse

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