Sentence examples for transshipment terminals from inspiring English sources

Quay-side berthing congestion is an emerging challenging issue that arises in busy container transshipment terminals and calls for effective management of terminal operations.

One is to limit their transshipment terminals to strategically located and well-equipped hubs, from which highway collection and delivery services radiate over longer distances; as a result, the railroad can carry the greater part of its intermodal traffic in full terminal-to-terminal trainloads, or unit trains.

The objective of this research is the design of a service transportation network that takes into account the time shipments are held at customs and transshipment terminals, as well as the possible delays due to the use of different transportation modes.

For this reason, not all transshipment terminals in the study area were included in the analysis.

Adding the other transshipment terminals in and close to the case study region would indeed increase the affinity scores of these municipalities.

The policy objective of the study was to find promising modal shift cases within the two provinces using local transshipment terminals.

In addition, there is an oil transshipment terminal near Castries.

We consider the above three tactical decision problems simultaneously for a container transshipment terminal with an eye toward the quayside congestion and the housekeeping cost of container movements.

Several different block lengths and yard crane deployment systems are evaluated by a fully dynamic, discrete event simulation model that considers the detailed movement of individual containers passing through a vessel-to-vessel transshipment terminal over a several week period.

New numerical results on yard capacity, fleet composition, truck substitutability, and terminal scalability issues are obtained using a fully-integrated, discrete event simulation model of a vessel-to-vessel transshipment terminal that is designed to reproduce the microscopic, stochastic, real-time environment at a multiple-berth facility.

In this article, the authors present an advanced High Level Architecture (HLA) federation of simulators (TRAINPORTS, TRAINing in marine PORTs by using Simulation), that recreates in a three-dimensional virtual environment the most important transshipment terminal of the South Mediterranean area, the Gioia Tauro container terminal.