ABSTRACT
The competitive environment, carriers, shippers, inland and seaport terminal operators and other participants within intermodal transport, need to understand each other’s operations far more than they did in the past. A simulation model characterises a system by mathematically describing the responses that can result from the interactions of the system’s entities. The port system is dynamic because its operations are affects by frequent qualitative and quantitative changes in characteristics of equipment, their organisation and the technologies employed. The main goal of the study the effectiveness of a crude oil loading terminal under given conditions and the opportunities to use the existing potential of equipment even more efficiently. Modelling and computer simulation provides new possibilities for a port manager. The methods are widely used in maritime ports throughout the world because of the easy application compared with more mathematical models.
