The increasing ship size growth and land-based capacity restrictions at container terminals increase the need for optimization approaches in the process design of container ports. Several strategies can be found in the literature, ranging from the optimization of terminal processes to the introduction of truck appointment systems and the direct handling of ransshipment containers. In this paper, a possibility for process redesign of waterside container handling to external trucks is analysed. For this purpose, the impact of direct waterside container handling on the terminal is analysed using a discrete vent-based simulation model. The study shows that the approach for new process design has potential, although implementation is not easy.
