THE IMPACT OF INTERNAL LOGISTICS DEVELOPMENT ON THE CONTAINER TERMINAL OPERATION MODES

Abstract

The applied significance of the potential capabilities of a container involved in the transportation of goods in the Hinterland zone, which presuppose the external manifestation of its transport characteristics in system interaction with other objects and participants in the process, is investigated in the paper. It is noted that the level of potential (maximum) carrying capacity of a heavy container in the Hinterland zone is a reflection of the organizational and technological conditions of its operation, and the value of the achieved carrying capacity characterizes the level of logistics development at the polygon under consideration. A number of scenarios for container handling organization in the Hinterland zone are classified and described. The dependencies are revealed and a mathematical apparatus for assessing the use of the transport potential of the container is presented. It is emphasized that the task of developing the transportation capabilities of the system under consideration involves reducing the length of transportation routes and developing measures to ensure the most complete loading of vehicles and increasing the average speed of transportation with existing restrictions on related operations (for example, loading and unloading). The problem of calculating the assessment of the development of Hinterland internal logistics as an external factor of transportation is formulated. Attention is drawn to the fact that the development of internal logistics does not depend on the presence or absence of goods in the region at the moment. The influence of the internal logistics development level on the modes of the container terminal operation and its service areas is revealed. It is concluded that the level of using the transport potential of container in the Hinterland zone reaches the estimated level of logistics development only with 100 % container loading in both directions and generally does not affect the organization of the transport process at the polygon under consideration.