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Unit Aims, Objectives and Prerequisites
C.6.2 Measuring container terminal performance

1. Unit Aims

This Unit is designed:

1. To explain why it is important to measure container terminal performance.
2. To list and define the principal measures of container terminal performance.
3. To explain how the principal measures of container terminal performance are calculated and used.

2. Unit Objectives

After completing this Unit, the learner will be able to:

1. State why it is necessary for the terminal to measure its performance.
2. Name and explain the nature of the four categories of terminal performance measures.
3. Explain the difference between ‘traffic’ and ‘throughput’ production measures, name and define the different primary and secondary production measures, and describe how they are measured and calculated.
4. Given data relating to traffic and throughput at a terminal or its CFS, calculate the various production measures derivable from the data.
5. Name and explain the nine main types of terminal productivity measures and describe how they can be measured and calculated.
6. Given data relating to terminal productivity, calculate the various measures derivable from the data.
7. List the five categories of terminal utilization measures, explain their nature and significance, and describe how they are calculated.
8. Given data relating to the utilization of various terminal facilities and resources, calculate correctly the relevant utilization measures.
9. Name and describe the major measures of service, and explain how they can be calculated.
10. Given data relating to terminal service, calculate correctly a range of service performance measures.
11. Define, recognize the best definition of, or distinguish between true and false statements concerning, the technical terms used in the Unit, as listed in Sections 3 and 4 below.

3. Unit Prerequisites

It is assumed that trainees will, before starting this Unit, have completed successfully the following Units or will have demonstrated (for example by successfully completing the Tests for those Units) their understanding of the topics covered by them:

• Container terminal operations (C.1.1)
• Container ship loading and discharging operations (C.1.2)
• The container terminal quay transfer operation (C.1.3)
• The container yard operation (C.1.4)
• The container terminal receipt/delivery operation (C.1.5)
• Container freight station operations (C.1.6)
• Container terminal work schedules (C.2.4)
• The container terminal and international trade (C.6.1)