A Study on the Functions of the Cargo Flow and Inventory at the CFS

Abstract

The purposes of this study are to build the good computer model of CFS function making use of actual cargo data on the CY and CFS, and also to calculate the cargo inventory volume through the model. The validity of this CFS model is considerably high and the outputs of parametric case studies are also reliable. The output distribution of inventory volume from this model could be used for the decision making of the optimal CFS capacity through the tradeoff analysis. And it is also confirmed that the double queueing theory should be applied strictly only when the distributions of the cargo arrival and departure are both equal to the Poisson distribution. This model could be also applied to planning of general warehouse by changing the input package of data distribution.