TITLE:
Marginal Expansion Planning of Infrastructure at a Container Terminal
AUTHORS:
Keng Bin Loke, Ab. Saman Abd. Kader, Mohd. Zamani Ahmad, Saharuddin Abdul Hamid, Mohamad Rosni Othman
KEYWORDS:
Infrastructure, Marginal Approach, Expansion Plan, Mathematical Model, Expansion Size, Expansion Time
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Marine Science,
Vol.5 No.1,
January
14,
2015
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.