Abstract
Despite the number of sailings canceled in the past few months, as demand has increased, the utilization of ships has become very high, resulting in sudden peaks of activity at the import container terminals. Ship-to-ship operations and yard activity at the container terminals are at their peak and starting to affect land operations on truck arrivals and departures. In response, a Truck Appointment System (TAS) has been developed to mitigate truck congestion that occurs between the gate and the yard of the container terminal. The vehicle booking system is developed and operated in-house at large-scale container terminals, but efficiency is low due to frequent truck schedule changes by the transport companies (forwarders). In this paper, we propose a new form of TAS in which the transport companies and the terminal operator cooperate. Numerical experiments show that the efficiency of the cooperation model is better by comparing the case where the transport company (forwarder) and the terminal operator make their own decision and the case where they cooperate. The cooperation model shows higher efficiency as there are more competing transport companies (forwarders) and more segmented tasks a truck can reserve.
Highlights
The global cargo operations, which had been steadily increasing every year since the global financial crisis in 2008, have been hit hard by COVID-19
Despite the number of sailings canceled in the past few months, as demand has increased, the utilization of ships has become very high, resulting in sudden peaks of activity at the import container terminals
Ship-to-ship operations and yard activity at the container terminals are at their peak, especially starting to affect land operations on truck arrivals and departures
Summary
The global cargo operations, which had been steadily increasing every year since the global financial crisis in 2008, have been hit hard by COVID-19 Sea transportation regulations such as temporary suspension and cancellation of operations occurred, and 11% of ship operations were canceled for six months since December 2019 when the first case of COVID-19 appeared [1]. 120 out of 126 countries have had restrictions on crew rotation, 92 of these countries have banned crew rotation, and 28 of these countries have allowed crew rotation through the search and approval of the authorities [2] These restrictions will prevent ships from entering the container terminal until it confirms that the crew has not been infected with the virus (mostly 14 days), impeding the smooth operation of maritime transport. Space expansion requires a lot of time and cost, ynaeatnorcnodesdtseooswcfnautrelrhyyeceftaaoocndronddntohiitsttaeicoiaunpnpserapsorllfttysihetpareaambtcsireipluni.atcaTycklheo(cesfeorexsenetpfagoFakerinegessht,uiiiooortenlnids1sepn)tr.rresoacbbteeulsgestmyaarliytsnhotaaoftonsoroacltrvchruoeerwtrsheebadretuertcwuatciweokenhnceootrnfhegCeietOgsita2sitoeeimnmapipnsrodsoisobtshnliebesml.e
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