Authors: Carlos Arango, Pablo Cortes, Jesus Muņuzuri, Luis Onieva
We study the current allocating berths for containerships in the port of Seville. It is the only inland port in Spain and it is located on the Guadalquivir River. This paper addresses the berth allocation planning problems using simulation with Arena software. We propose a simulation model by the identification of the main bottleneck. Allocation planning aims to minimise the total service time for each ship and considers a first-come-first-served allocation strategy. We conduct a large amount of computational experiments which validate the model.