Institute of Transportation, MOTC

        With the development of the global trade, the loading and unloading volume of maritime container terminal grows increasingly. With limited yard cranes in the terminal, the peak time of loading and unloading container operations may easily have an impact on the traffic and cause waiting time for trucks. Recently, some ports have begun to use truck appointment system to solve the congestion in the container terminal, and the preliminary results show that it can efficiently diminish trucks’ turnaround time in the terminal. We propose a new model of truck appointment system with container rehandling operations and the impact of truck companies to build the time schedule of all container operations. It can separate the truck arrival pattern and diminsh the waiting time of the truckers through the truck appointment system if truckers arrive at the terminal according to the time schedule.
       This study can efficiently diminish 51% of the total waiting time and 66% of the container rehandling operations time by simulating the real situation with data from Taiwan Keelung Port. In addition, it can solve the problem by the shortest total waiting time when the proportion of the weights and the costs are 2:3 and 2:1:4. The other results show that the model can solve the problem by the lowest cost when the gates become much 30% service rate and the yards become much 50% service rate. The results of this study can regard as the reference to develop the management of trucks in the container terminal in the future by using Sensitivity Analysis