Print Email Facebook Twitter Optimising the yard layout of Container Terminals Title Optimising the yard layout of Container Terminals: The port of Thessaloniki case Author Ntriankos, Vasileios (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences; TU Delft Hydraulic Engineering) Contributor Taneja, P. (graduation committee) Lansen, A.J. (graduation committee) Vrolijk, Eslie (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Civil Engineering | Hydraulic Engineering Project CIE5050-09 Date 2020-09-09 Abstract Over the last decades, containerisation became the major way to transport discrete goods replacing a part of general cargo trade and facing the increasing consumer demand of developed and developing world. As a result, container terminals became an important part of a lot of ports worldwide while new technology was developed to encounter the increasing requirements for the operation of container terminals. A container terminal has a quite complicated operation as different kind of equipment and people need to cooperate under a strict timeline that does not tolerate mistakes. The optimisation of a container terminal can be achieved by adjusting different parameters concerning different areas or equipment of the terminal. In this project, the arrangement of the yard layout is analysed focusing on a straddle carrier operation. The comparison criterion is the mean maximum travelling distance that a straddle carrier needs to travel for a seaside job cycle, serving the quay cranes. Considering a rectangular layout, making reasonable assumptions and using simple mathematical relations, the travelling distance of straddle carriers from stacking blocks to the quay is modelled and a proposition to minimise this distance is developed. Then, assuming the speed of straddle carriers for the different areas they move, the mean maximum travelling time for a job cycle is determined. The theory is applied for the container terminal of the port of Thessaloniki in Greece and a rearrangement for its layout is proposed. Using simple mathematics, for a simple yard layout, it is possible to propose changes that, for the port of Thessaloniki, can decrease the travelling time of straddle carriers up to 10%. This result is very sensitive to the assumptions of the driving strategy that straddle carriers follow and to the pooling strategy that is applied for the stacking yard operation. Subject Container terminalYard layoutThessalonikiStacking yard To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:aef1bfa3-9c74-4762-ba55-510a3fac379b Part of collection Student theses Document type student report Rights © 2020 Vasileios Ntriankos Files PDF CIE5050_09_Vasileios_Ntriankos.pdf 2.59 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:aef1bfa3-9c74-4762-ba55-510a3fac379b/datastream/OBJ/view