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Tandem queues in bulk port operations

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The study is motivated by the operations at the bulk material handling port of Kamsar in Guinea. Bauxite ore is brought to port to load vessels that arrive on a semi‐scheduled basis. Vessels go through several stages of delays due to sailing, tide and due to time in a waiting berth before and after they are loaded. We propose bounds and an approximation for a modified port time which is a significant measure of performance in bulk‐material port operations.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA

    Tayfur Altiok

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Altiok, T. Tandem queues in bulk port operations. Annals of Operations Research 93, 1–14 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018915605231

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