The Miscellaneous tab page is used to set up general parameters for the berth. Tab Page Details  Ship Tie Down Time- This value represents the time required to tie the ship down at the berth. Tie down time is applied to each ship when it arrives at the berth and is represented by a yellow colored square on the stern of the ship. Operations do not occur while the ship is being tied down. Once the tie down time is complete, the yellow colored square will turn green and load/unload operations will commence. Ship Exit Time- This value represents the time required to untie the ship and complete exit procedures. Exit time is applied to each ship before it leaves the berth and is represented by an orange colored square on the stern of the ship. Sort Container Loads- These checkboxes determine the order that containers are removed from the yard and loaded onto a ship. If聽each box is checked, containers located in the same block/bay/cell/tier will be moved to the ship consecutively. If every box is unchecked, containers will be moved to the ship in the order that they arrived in the yard, regardless of current location in the yard. If only some of the boxes are checked, the sort will only consider those boxes that are checked and ignore those that are unchecked. Draw Berth Layout- This checkbox toggles the berth layout being drawn in the model view. If this box is checked a solid black line will be drawn to the view to show the berth location. If this box is unchecked, no line will be drawn to the view, but ships will still appear at the correct location. Note: The berth line is a solid black line and may be difficult to see on the model view when gridlines are also displayed. [Hide the grid](Flexsim_Users_Manual.html) to see the berth line more easily. Advanced Berthplanner Event Trigger- This trigger allows you to write custom code for various events that happen for the berth. The event, schedrow, hatchnr, and hatchrow variables are available for use in this trigger. The event variable will be one of the following values: - BP\_ON\_START\_WEEK: The trigger is fired at each beginning of each week - BP\_ON\_SHIP\_ARRIVAL: The trigger is fired when a ship arrives at the terminal, before it is berthed. - BP\_ON\_SHIP\_BERTH\_ASSIGNMENT: The trigger is fired when a ship is assigned to a berth location. - BP\_ON\_SHIP\_DOCKED: The trigger is fired after a ship is assigned a berth location and finishes its tie-down time. - BP\_ON\_HATCH\_START: The trigger is fired when a crane starts to work on a hatch. - BP\_ON\_HATCH\_ROW\_START: The trigger is fired when a crane starts to work on a hatch row. - BP\_ON\_HATCH\_END: The trigger is fired when a crane finishes its work on a hatch row. - BP\_ON\_SHIP\_FINISHED: The trigger is fired when a crane finishes all work for the ship, including discharges, loads, and set up times for all hatches, and before the ship leaves the berth. - BP\_ON\_SHIP\_EXIT: The trigger is fired when a ship leaves the berth, and before the ship object is destroyed. For more information on using this event trigger, read聽the command documentation for getshiprecordstat(). There are also several examples of code in the picklist options. Harbor Event Trigger聽- This event trigger will be available if the "Use Harbor" checkbox is checked. It allows the user to define the ship behavior before it arrives at the berth or after it leaves the berth. For example, this trigger can be used to simulate the travel from the entrance of the river to the berth, which can be miles away from the entrance. Commands are available for the user to fire harbor operations at the appropriate time. For more information, please refer to the example code in the picklist options. The event variable in this trigger has one of the following values: - HARBOR\_ON\_SHIP\_CREATION: trigger is fired when ship is created. This is usually the beginning of the week. - HARBOR\_ON\_RESERVATION\_AVAILABLE: trigger is fired right after HARBOR\_ON\_SHIP\_CREATION. - HARBOR\_OP\_ARRIVED\_AT\_LOCATION: trigger is fired when the ship arrives at berth. - HARBOR\_ON\_FINISHED\_AT\_BERTH: trigger is fired right before the ship can leave the berth. Quay Crane Assignment Trigger -聽This event trigger is triggered when a ship arrives or leaves. It allows users to implement customized quay crane assignment logic. Commands are available for users to assign any crane to any ship, as well as to query information about cranes and ships. For more information on this trigger, please refer to the command craneassignmentstat() in the Command Help. Sample code is also provided in the picklist options that demonstrates usage of the trigger and the commands. The event variable in this trigger has one of the following values: - REALLOCATE\_ON\_SHIP\_ARRIVAL: trigger is fired when a ship arrives at the berth. - REALLOCATE\_ON\_SHIP\_DEPARTURE: trigger is fired when a ship leaves the berth. Twin Lift Percentage聽- The checkbox "Use Twin Lift" allows users to turn on and off the ability of twin lifting 20ft containers. When the box is checked, the text boxes will be available for users to input the percentage of 20ft containers that will be twin lifted for either discharge or load operations. 聽Note that twin lift percentage only works for the default gang dispatch, it does not work for the default pooling strategy.