by SimPlus | Sep 27, 2007 | News
Director Chen Chuanyu presented a paper on ‘Workload Forecasting in a Container Terminal’ at the conference, where SimPlus also had an exhibition booth. It was a good opportunity for SimPlus to interact with academia and leading industry players in the port and maritime industry.
The International Maritime-Port Technology and Development Conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from the maritime-port industry, research and academic institutes and authorities to share new developments, concepts and practices and exchange views and experiences.
SimPlus exhibition attracted more than a hundred visitors who showed strong interest in its services and solutions. Among them was Mr. Raymond Lim, Minister for Transport, Singapore, who visited SimPlus’ exhibition booth on the first day with his colleagues. Other visitors included delegates from Maritime and Port Authority, Singapore, port operators from Europe and engineering consulting firms from USA.
by SimPlus | Aug 27, 2007 | News
Further to developing an anchorage planning tool for Maritime and Port Authority (MPA), Singapore, SimPlus has now been engaged to help the MPA think-tank in strategizing sea space planning, so as to ensure Singapore port stays competitive. The study hopes to come up with practical ways to improve space usage in the anchorages.
SimPlus is to customize its AnchorageView system to simulate various ‘what-if’ scenarios of anchorage space management in Singapore. The quantified results will help the MPA management to gauge the impact of each change and ultimately decide on the most suitable steps to take in the future, when the vessel traffic starts growing beyond capacity.
Chen Chuanyu, a Director of SimPlus feels that “several ports in the world will be facing similar situations now and in the coming years. AnchorageView will prove to be a very useful tool for such sea-space planning and optimization.”
by SimPlus | Jul 27, 2007 | News
With significant increase expected in vessel traffic at its general and bulk cargo terminal, Jurong Port is planning its expansion and has engaged SimPlus to assess the plan.
Having conducted a range of studies for JPPL’s container terminal, SimPlus is now all set to look at JPPL’s conventional cargo terminal’s operations. With the berth usage rapidly rising, it needs to be evaluated whether the planned berth space can in future sufficiently cater to the forecasted traffic and if not, what are possible solutions.
For this purpose “a simulation model of the berth operations will be created, such that it closely mimics JPPL’s berthing setup, rules and guidelines” says Ye Rong, a Director of SimPlus. He adds that “once we have analyzed the historical data to unearth arrival patterns, we will use this to generate future arrivals of vessels for the simulation system. The results will indicate whether the traffic can be sustained by the berth, maintaining the required service level. After the berth capacity is assessed, it may then be required to evaluate the yard space and resources…”
by SimPlus | Jul 27, 2007 | News
SimPlus is to quantitatively compare the performance of a few layouts using its Cargo Terminal Simulation (CTS) system after customizing it for PSA operations.
PSA International, running several dozens of overseas ports, deals with varied operating practices, operations concepts, traffic mix etc. Given the many different layouts in use at their terminal, PSA is interested in a systematic assessment of the various layouts to determine which performs better in terms of the space usage and productivity achieved by the terminal.
Stuti Nautiyal, a Director of SimPlus feels that “With this new project, we are happy to reinforce our relationship with PSA. Simulation will be a useful tool to methodically evaluate the different layouts….. Having earlier modeled PSA’s operations, this now simplifies the process of emulating PSA practices. For this purpose, the existing PSA model will be further customized so as to zoom into the area of interest, i.e. the yard block operations”
by SimPlus | Jul 24, 2007 | Publication
A planning tool using historical and online data from the terminal operating system to forecast workload in a container terminal for day-to-day resource and staff planning purpose.
in International Maritime Port Technology and Development Conference (2007: Singapore)
