Sojourn time in bulk terminals assuming deterministic, exponential and phase type distributed vessel contents

In this thesis, a system is analyzed that models a bulk terminal. The main focus is to obtain performance measures such as the expectation and the variance of the sojourn time of docked vessels. This thesis is divided into three main topics. The first topic assumes exponentially distributed vessel contents. The second topic assumes deterministically distributed vessel contents. And the last topic assumes a phase type distribution for the vessel content. In the first topic, an expression for both the expected value and variance of the sojourn time is given. The second topic gives the expected value of the sojourn time. And the last topic proposes a distribution for the sojourn time.