PLANNING AND DECISION-MAKING TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY ON A MARITIME CONTAINER TERMINAL

This article describes orientations in optimization of operations on a maritime container terminal. With the application of an adequate model for forecasting, planning and simulating it is possible to increase the productivity and optimize the capacity of the terminal. The emphasis is mainly on setting up the decision making model, in order to raise productivity in all subsystems of the maritime container terminal. Management of a maritime container terminal is a complex process, which includes a vast number of different decisions. The management must develop elements and strategies for checking the productivity and its rise, which can only be achieved through optimization of the entire system. With knowledge about new technologies, operational processes, methods of forecast and simulation it is possible to achieve the easiest usage of different strategies for improving productivity. This is particularly valid for terminals, where the physical extension of the terminal is practically impossible and further development of the system is possible only by searching internal sources. Therefore, the management of a maritime container terminal must develop an appropriate decision support model, in order to make an adequate support to strategic decisions. These decisions relate basically to the assessment of the best development and optimization decisions and on application of proposed solutions in the infrastructure and suprastructure of the terminal.