The operational dynamics of a container terminal is governed by market perceptions and from decisions that arise from those perceptions. Under that perspective, according to Sterman, the interpretation of the real world not only drives our decisions but also alter our mental model about the reality creating different decision rules and new strategies.

Thus, our decisions alter our environment, leading to new decisions that trigger side effects, consequently delay reactions, changes goals and bring the intervention of others in the system. For example, the problem of berth scheduling for optimizing vessels arrival time in the containers terminals with the terminal yard organization is highly complex, not only operationally but administratively in order to cope with all commercial and logistics demands. However, the complexity lies in finding the best solution out of an astronomical number of possibilities.

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