Generation & evaluation of mobile harbor architectures

Abstract

There are three basic requirements for a port to serve large container ships: securing water depth, providing reasonable ship staying time and having a short distance from main trunk routes. The mobile harbor can resolve these issues with offshore operation and an ultra fast interface at the land berth. The purpose of this study is to enumerate and evaluate feasible architectures for the mobile harbor and traditional ports. We use an executable meta language to enumerate architectures. As a result, 9 and 128 feasible architectures of traditional ports and mobile harbors are generated, respectively. Throughput based calculations are used to evaluate the architectures. We identify the cheapest configuration of architectures which can serve a ship with in 24hours for given market conditions. This configuration can be used as an initial architecture and configuration for the given market.