Performance improvement of maritime container terminals through the bottleneck mitigation cycle

Conference paper (2021)

Authors

B. Atasoy Transport Engineering and Logistics - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
B. Wiegmans Transport and Planning - CEG
Lorant Tavasszy Transport and Planning - CEG , Transport and Logistics - TPM
Arjen De Waal TBA B.V.
Research Group
Transport Engineering and Logistics (Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) (TU Delft)
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Published Date

2021

Language

English

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Faculty

Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

Department

Marine and Transport Technology

Research Group

Transport Engineering and Logistics

Abstract

Scarcity of maritime container terminal (MCT) capacity can become a problem for global supply chains. Bottlenecks limit the capacity of these terminals and should therefore be alleviated. However, there is no structured approach available in current literature to mitigate the effects of bottlenecks at MCTs. Therefore, this research introduces a holistic approach called the bottleneck mitigation cycle (BMC) which consists of three steps: bottleneck classification, bottleneck detection, and bottleneck alleviation. This research aims to provide a proof of concept of this approach.