Model for Choosing Rational Technology of Containers Transshipment in Multimodal Cargo Delivery Systems

Abstract

The study’s purpose is to increase grain cargo delivery efficiency in containers in multimodal railway and water transportation by choosing a rational technology for container transshipment at port terminals. Typical technologies for port terminals are container cargoes transshipment from railway carriages to ship according to the direct option technology, as well as container cargoes transshipment through warehouses. The analysis of container transportations volumes dynamics was carried out in Ukraine, including grain supply. Most relevant is the daily total cost of container cargo transshipment at port terminals as efficiency criteria. Numerical experiments were conducted for various container quantities incoming to port terminals. As a result, total costs are dependent on container quantities incoming to port for alternative transshipment technologies. The obtained graphs allow determining rational technologies of container cargoes transshipment at port terminals depending on their quantity incoming to port in railway carriages.