SIMULATION OF THE IMPORT BOUND CARGO TRAFFIC PROCESSING AT A CONTAINER TERMINAL IN MATLAB ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

Issues related to the use of mathematical modeling in the process of making management decisions at a sea container terminal have been looked at. A brief overview of generally accepted approaches to the choice of a mathematical apparatus for describing the subtasks of the technological process of terminal cargo handling has been given. The stages of developing a mathematical model based on the author’s methodology for analyzing technological processes for processing import bound cargo traffic at a functioning container terminal have been described in detail. As an example, the process of developing a discrete-event simulation model for processing an import bound container flow arriving at a sea terminal in the MATLAB environment has been considered.