INFLUENCE OF A CARGO PLAN ON PORT OPERATIONS

Nowadays, with overall introduction of patented technologies for the production of goods, the possibility of reducing their cost in order to maintain a competitive position in the commodity markets is supported by the rational organization of transportation. Thus, the transport component in the final cost of transported goods has to be reduced. At the same time, when using the same handling, lifting and transporting equipment from a limited number of the global manufacturers, the possibility of reducing the cost of transport operations (both shipping and handling, including loading/unloading) exclusively depends on not on the set, but on the rational use of the equipment. One of the possible mechanisms for rationalizing the loading and unloading operations carried out on container terminals is the rationalization of cargo plans of the serviced container ships. The versatility of their implementation is explained, first of all, by severe requirements for the safety of navigation, which determine the provision of the necessary stability, unsinkability, the absence of a heel and different that could interfere with the berth operations, the required sitting of the ship in the water, etc. On the other hand, the rational allocation of containers in the hold slots and on the hatches covers of the container ships, corresponding to the voyage rotation (the sequence of visiting terminals on the trip in progress), provides an increase in the share of productive movements of handling, lifting and transporting equipment, reduces the required time for a ship to be under loading and unloading operations, which reduces the time of a group of ship trips on a string. Such calculations are complicated by the fact that the handling equipment, used for loading and unloading operations on a ship, operates relatively autonomously, with each unit allocated for its own section of the ship (bay). Thus, the task can be solved only in a complex manner, in the context of the task of cranes allocation over the berth. The issues of cargo planning of liner container ships from the standpoint of reducing the time of ship’s turnaround time due to rational assignment and use of terminal handling equipment are studied in the paper.

container shipping, cargo plan, handling of ships in the port, turnaround time

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