| Article ID: | iaor20011907 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 93 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 1 |
| End Page Number: | 14 |
| Publication Date: | May 2000 |
| Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Altiok Tayfur |
| Keywords: | transportation: water, queues: applications |
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.