Marginal Expansion Planning of Infrastructure at a Container Terminal

Keng Bin Loke^1*, Ab. Saman Abd. Kader², Mohd. Zamani Ahmad², Saharuddin Abdul Hamid¹, Mohamad Rosni Othman¹

¹School of Maritime Business and Management, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia.
²Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia.

DOI: 10.4236/ojms.2015.51009                

Abstract

Globalization push container terminal grown rapidly in decade. To fulfill the future traffic requirement, this study highlights marginal expansion planning of infrastructure in a container terminal. By using marginal approach, the expansion plan can be determine correctly and economically stage by stage. A mathematical model has generated to calculate the expansion size, expansion time, interval of expansion, expansion cost, and significant of expansion for each infrastructure respectively. It recommended determining the expansion plan for each infrastructure respectively. This is because one of the infrastructures needs to be expanding but the other may not. The generated model was verified with others model and validated with case study to investigate the practicability of the model. The model serves as expansion decision making tools to assist port expansion planners.

Keywords

Infrastructure, Marginal Approach, Expansion Plan, Mathematical Model, Expansion Size, Expansion Time

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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