A Research on the Improvement Strategy on the Operation Performance of Container Terminal

Abstract

This research intends to carry out study on the strategy of improving the operating performance of container terminal from the software aspect through quantitative simulation model. Shipping strategic alliance is popular in recent years and it is anticipated to base on the improvement strategy on berth to enhance the operating performance of container terminal. This research applies three evaluation indicators (average waiting time, waiting time factor and the author create indicator) to evaluate the operating performance with three different schemes (berth charter, berth exchange and common berth). The research results show that no matter which type of the above evaluation methods is adopted and according to the research on the sample cases of shipping companies the operation performance of the scheme of common berth is most significant.