With the expected growing in maritime container terminal and the exponential growth
in vessels size, container terminals operations are facing higher demands. Being able
to simulate the operations that occur inside container terminals can lead to obtain
valuable insights, help to identify possible problems and solve them, and also some
decision-making tools can be created.
This thesis, then, uses simulation to model the operations of a container terminal
in Denmark. The movements of containers from the storage area to the quay crane for
loading and from the quay crane to the storage area for unloading are modelled. The
simulation software used is AnyLogic. Once the model is created, an explanation of it
and its limitations are presented. The databases used to run the simulation are
explained and a validation of the model is performed with real data. After that, a
probabilistic function to generate new data is found in order to run simulations of
future vessels. Four different vessels are analysed with real data and generated data.
A comparison of the results is made and some conclusions are extracted. To end, some
recommendations for future work are presented.
