Terminal San Giorgio in Genoa, Italy, planned the reorganization of their facility’s layout and operations, aiming to increase its throughput and make the terminal safer. They needed a port simulator – a digital twin of the terminal, which would serve as a testbed for container yard planning and help predict how the changes would affect the current operations.
The port of Le Havre, France, needed support for construction of new multimodal terminal. The issue that required simulation was supporting containers transfer between rail trains/river barges and other existing terminals, which transferred these containers to and from sea transport.
The Port of Long Beach, California, planned to invest up to $1 billion dollars in its Pier B Yard rail facility. TranSystems, with over 25 years of experience in the transport and supply chain space, worked with the port to quantify system requirements to meet capacity goals and to gain stakeholder consensus. Modeling the rail system of the port was necessary to demonstrate to the stakeholders the required changes.
The BNSF Railway Company is one of the largest freight railroad networks in the United States. The company has 32,500 miles of track in 28 states and three Canadian provinces, and more than 8,000 locomotives. Expanding the company’s existing facilities, and developing new facilities in intermodal segments, would require making large capital investments. To help evaluate various options of capacity expansion in major facilities, and make data-informed decisions, BNSF developed container terminal simulation models of the Corwith and Hobart facilities.
Partnering with SimWell and the Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business, the BCMEA created a digital twin of the Vancouver longshore labor dispatch. The digital twin supports medium and long-term strategies and predicts trends in demographics and technologies, modeling scenarios and enabling more informed decision making. Learn more in the case study.
Port Botany is the second largest container port in Australia. Port management wanted to assess infrastructure and operational changes by using simulation modeling. GHD expanded the existing rail strategy simulation model developed by NSW Ports. This enabled them to optimize rail operations and maximize rail capacity.
Cementos Argos is a cement producer in Colombia. Argos intended to optimize scheduling in order to avoid rotation delays or demurrage and use 100% capacity of each vessel. This case study shows how simulation modeling helped to accomplish supply planning up to 84% and vessel capacity utilization up to 99%.
Researchers from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, worked to identify whether the introduction of each container’s ETA would improve the situation with capacity utilization among the supply chain actors in the port of Hamburg, one of world’s top 20 ports in terms of container traffic.
Demand at a coal loading port was forecast to grow and exceed the facility’s operating capacity. To meet this expected increase in demand, the port’s operators had to determine the current maximum capacity of the facility, identify the main bottlenecks, and test different extension scenarios in a risk-free digital environment using simulation modeling.
Evans & Peck utilised a discrete event simulation modelling approach to maximise container throughput in port terminal whilst minimising facility rehandling.