Consequently, port managers have faced the problem of expanding the port territories around maritime terminals. The location of ports in residential zones constrains its development and growth of container volumes (Muravev, Rakhmangulov, Hu, & Zhou, 2019). However, there has been no increase in container volume at major ports all over the world in the last five years (“World Shipping Council. Nowadays, one of the global trends is the increase in the number of containerized cargoes in the world and the volume of container shipping in the world transport system (“UNCTAD. Due to the lack of systematic approach to optimization of the main parameters of intermodal terminals in logistic industry, our findings set herein could improve the decision-making process related to the selection of strategic facility planning in the field of intermodal terminals.

On the basis of the provided case study on one of the busiest ports in China, we prove the adequacy and validity of the developed simulation models. The developed set of models allows us to compute the balanced values of the parameters, while an effective operation of a seaport – intermodal terminal system is achieved. We show that the combination of the agent-based modeling with other simulation approaches simplifies the process of designing simulation models and increases their visibility. To clarify the obtained averaged benefits of the main dry ports parameters while the port managers make key decisions on the investments into implementation of intermodal terminals, we have developed an agent-based discrete-event simulation model of a seaport – a dry port system. To make an express evaluation of the preliminary implementation of dry ports, we have developed an agent-based system dynamics simulation model to achieve the stable state of the main parameters of intermodal terminals. We have developed a set of hybrid simulation models to optimize the main parameters of intermodal terminals which are also called dry ports.

In this research, we investigate a two-stage optimization of intermodal terminals main parameters via using AnyLogic simulation platform. Due to numerous uncertainties such as bad weather conditions, frequent changes in the schedules of vessels, breakdowns of equipment, port managers are aiming at providing adaptive and flexible strategic planning of their facilities, especially intermodal terminals.

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