Optimal Ship Berthing Plans

Abstract

A ship berthing plan assigns surface vessels a berth prior to their port entrance, or reassigns ships once in port to allow them to accomplish in a timely manner maintenance, training, and certification events which build readiness for future operational commitments. Each ship requires different services when in port, such as shore power, crane services, ordnance, and fuel. Unfortunately, not all services are offered at all piers. At present, ship berthing plans are manually prepared by a port operations scheduler and often result in unnecessary berth shifts, which puts ships out of action for several hours. An extensive user-friendly computerized optimization model is developed and tested to assist the schedulers in the creation of berthing plan which minimizes port loading conflicts, thus promoting fleet readiness through berthing stability. Norfolk Naval Station is used. Keywords: Port loading; Berthing plans; Port berthing; Military thesis; Ship berthing plans; Ship berthing; Berth scheduling; Ship scheduling; Supply replenishment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA209435

Entities

People

  • Katie P. Thurman

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Classification
  • Maintenance
  • Materials
  • Mathematical Models
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Military Strategy
  • Munitions
  • Naval Shore Facilities
  • Navy
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Schools
  • United States
  • United States Naval Academy
  • User Friendly

Readers

  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.