2251. Vessel arrival planning under uncertain berth availability
Invited abstract in session MA-32: Seaside Planning-1, stream Maritime and Port Logistics.
Monday, 8:30-10:00Room: Maurice Keyworth 1.09
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Pim van Leeuwen
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| ESE, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Abstract
Efficient and timely vessel arrival planning is crucial for the smooth operation of maritime transportation networks, ensuring optimal resource utilization and minimizing operational costs. When pro-forma schedules are disturbed by arrival deviations of vessels, waiting time and unnecessary fuel consumption become problems that shipping lines are faced with. Using a simulation model of a single berth terminal, we test speed selection strategies for vessels that aim to minimize fuel, sailing and waiting costs under varying availability of information. In different scenarios, we find optimality gaps ranging from 0.1% to 19.6% and show that knowing and communicating service end time to the vessel calling next could be valuable to integrated shipping lines and terminals.
Keywords
- Transportation
- Simulation
- Transportation
Status: accepted
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