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The development of containerization and its incessant expansion comprises alterations and technologicaladvances in container terminals. In the current period of “vastness”, regardless of existing fleet congestion, containercompanies increasing the intake of containers at the terminals to take advantage from economies of scale and to decreaseoperating costs. Subsequently, container terminals dealing with the problem of service delay.In dainty of this, this reportisconcentrating on the optimization of handling operations in the container yard, which is most important and complex areaof terminal on which terminal efficiency mainly depends. In precise, it attempts to: (1) determine optimized size of blockstorage in the container or storage yard; (2) developing the optimized container yard layout, in which itfocusses on eachaspectsindividually such asinternal truck’s traveled distance optimization. In order to challenge these issues, two differentanalytical models are developed in this report. The first model targeted to evaluate the optimal size of each factor ofcontainer yard block. And, second analytical model aims to minimize the total distance travelled by internal trucks duringcontainer handling operations to facilitate optimal container yard. Finally, the numerical experiments are described inthis report to prove the practicality of the different analytical models developed by concentrating on one aim of increasingthe efficiency of container terminal. These can be useful by other researchers, organizers and terminal workers tooptimize the container terminal operations, to increase their efficiency rates and to enhance terminal throughput withoutsuffering large investment. Becoming technically efficient, the terminal will be more cost- efficient as well, resulting inthe overall optimization of terminal performance.The results of thisstudy describe and prove, how an infidelfactorsuch asblock storage capacity, yard layout by considering internal truck performance, etc. can enhance the efficiency ofcontainer terminal.

Mohd Vaseem, Sachida Nand Mishra, “PERATIONS OPTIMIZATION AT TKD CONTAINER TERMINAL”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 5, Issue 3, pp. 128-141, March 2018.