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IT SYSTEMS FORADVANCED OPTIMIZATION
Dr.-Ing. Eva Savelsberg, VP Logistics Division
Investments into Port Productivity –
How to do more for less
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Why is Investment in Port Productivity important?
Challenges for Maritime Terminals
• Mega-ships create mega headaches
• More cargo is concentrated on a
single ship, leading to peak loads
• Adaptations to infrastructure and
equipment are needed
• Efficient waterside processes need
to go hand in hand with high
performing hinterland systems
Challenges for Inland Terminals
• Higher peak loads across the
entire supply chain network due to
mega ships
• Insufficient terminal and
intermodal infrastructure capacity
to efficiently handle cargo volumes
• Increased network constraints will
affect service and performance
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Why is Investment in Port Productivity important?
Maritime Terminals Inland Terminals
Standard
Solutions
• TOS
• (Semi-) Automation
• New handling equipment
• New handling equipment
• More rails, more space
• Additional labour
Advanced
Solutions
• TOS + Optimization
software as add-on
• TOS with built-in Optimization
software
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Advanced Optimization
Conventional IT only provide data
and leave the decision up to the user.
Advanced
Optimization
Administrative IT
e.g. ERP/SCM or TOS
Advanced Optimization Software
• have their „own intelligence“
• They propose optimized solutions which
the user may accept, reject or modify.
Technology
• Operations Research
• Fuzzy Logic
• Computational Intelligence
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Selected References
Daimler AG
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Facts & Figures
• Established in 1969
• Organically growing, no external
investors
• Since 1985 always profitable
• Internal ownership (directors, staff)
• Today more than 550 employees
• Principal corporate objective:
long-term sustainability
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Facts & Figures
Installations at
customers
Staff from more
than 30 nations
Headquarters
in Aachen
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Data Driven Logistics Decision Making
The Challenges
• Individualization: More & more tasks (orders, deliveries,
transports) have to be coordinated at high speed
• Immediateness: Wise decisions need to be taken
despite permanent, erratic & unplannable market changes
• Big Data: It's not the huge amount of data that is
overwhelming but the huge amount of possible actions
• The Unexpected: Taking complex decisions in a quick,
flexible & situational and adaptable way is key to success
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Agile Optimization Software (AOS)
The Management Concept:
• Rapid: flexible & quick response at any time
• Smart: with optimized decision quality
• Interactive: (Human + Computer)2
What’s AOS?
Technology driven management
concept responding to the massive
challenges of today's rapidly
transforming business world.
The Technology Concept:
• Best-of-Breed IT (Add-on)
• Algorithms
• Operations Research
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Operations Research (OR)
Powered by OR algorithms,
there are many techniques for greatly
speeding up the search for good solutions
Equipment
• Last/current position
• Job suitability
• Availability & time windows
• Driving times/distances
Load Unit
• Size, type, content,
restrictions
• Departure time &
destination
Yard
• Slot suitability
• Slot restrictions
• Retrieval distance
• Operational areas
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Operations Research (OR) – Example
Time to take
a decisionLess than a second
Restriction to
consider100
Yard slots to30.000
choose from
Container
to stack1
Anticipating what the terminal
will look like several moves
ahead of the one you
are about to make
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TOS for Inland Terminals + Optimization
Yard
Management
Train Load Planning
Rail Crane
Optimization
Handling Equipment
Truck/Gate Processing
Administration,
Billing & Reporting
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TOS for Inland Terminals + Optimization
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Truck /Gate Benefits
Reduced Turnaround Times
• Optimized selection of transfer points
• Optimized sequence of transfer points
• Standardized gate processes provide yard
managers with the necessary information
in real-time
• The integration of gate automation
technology is also possible
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Yard Management Benefits
Tap the full potential
• Efficient utilization of resources and storage areas
• Best possible space utilization
• Higher stacking possible
• Minimized rehandlers
• Scattered stacking terminal wide or within target
areas
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Benefits Achieved from Staging Areas
Smoother handling
• Transport chains will be generated by creating
smart links between staging, waiting and storage
areas
• Minimization of waiting times
• The suitability of different equipment types is
considered
• Improved ability to meet deadlines
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Benefits to Handling Equipment
Minimized driving distances and times
• Equipment productivity will be increased
thanks to real-time optimization of container
moves
• Reduced time for empty travel and idle
equipment
• Combining jobs where possible
• Pooling of vehicles / dynamic crane split
• The integration of positioning systems and
(semi-) automation is also possible
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Benefits to Train Load Planning
Improved on-schedule performance
• Optimization tools support the train
dispatcher in preparing the load plan
• Maximized wagon/slot utilization
• Minimized loading distance and configuration
(pin) changes
• Double stacking
• Handling orders for loading and unloading
trains are updated in real-time and
intelligently assigned to handling resources By Doug Wertman from Rogers, AR, USA (Cajon Intermodal) [CC BY 2.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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KTL Kombi-Terminal Ludwigshafen (Germany)
Administration & optimization
of bimodal inland terminal:
• Up to 500,000 load units/a
• Yard management
• Train load planning
• Rail crane (RMG), Reach
stacker & terminal tractor
• Multi-step transport order
generation
• Truck schedule© KTL
One of Germany’s largest
Intermodal Rail Terminal
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Container Terminal Altenwerden (CTA) – Hamburg
Germany’s largest
Container Rail TerminalPhoto: HHLA / Michael Zapf
Steering & optimization of
train and truck handling:
• 3 M TEU/a
• 500,000 boxes (813,000
TEU) by rail in 2013
• 7 rail tracks of 700 m with
4 RMG (30 trains/d)
• 26 yard blocks
• 12 tractors, 200 chassis
• 2,500 trucks/d
“Handling 500,000 boxes by rail
– this is a great success for us.
[…] At CTA, efficient handling
processes go hand-in-hand with
a high performing hinterland
system”.
Oliver Dux,
Managing Director, CTA
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APM Terminals: Maasvlakte II (Rotterdam)
Rail Crane Optimization:
• Add-on to exiting TOS
• Creates Transport Chains:
ASC + Lift-AGV + Rail
• Selects optimized transfer
points (rack or direct
interchange)
• Optimizes the sequence
of work orders for each
rail crane
“Putting together a terminal like
MVII is the “Champions League”
of container terminal technology”.
Frank Tazelaar,
Managing Director Maasvlakte IIKeynote speech at TOC Europe, 9th June 2015
• Automated facility
• Battery powered lift-AGVs
• Remote crane operators
• Zero CO2 impact
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Coming Up: TraPac LLC (Port of Los Angeles)
Optimization of rail crane operations in an semi-
automated terminal:
• 3 new double cantilever rail cranes
• Transfer of containers to and from rail staging area
• Rail car loading remotely from control room
• Interface to existing TOS and new crane system
• First onsite tests: Sept. 2015
• Delivery: early 2016
• Go-live: March 2016
Source: www.trapac.com
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Coming Up: Samskip van Dieren Multimodal B.V. (Germany)
Administration & optimization of
multimodal inland terminal:
• Yard slot optimization
• Train load planning & optimization
• Rail crane (RMG) optimization
• Reach stacker & terminal tractor opt.
• Multi-step transport order generation
• Truck schedule optimization
• Replaces existing TOS and interfaces
to existing booking systemSource: www.trapac.com
Source: www.samskipmultimodal.com