Container Storage Planning at a Container Terminal for the Mega-containership

A Study of Container Terminal Planning

A container port must be planned to satisfy prompt accommodation of ships with minimum waiting time in port, and with maximum use of berth facilities. Somewhere between these opposing objectives each container port must reach a compromise, the number of berths which will achieve the most economical transfer of cargo between ships and shore. Computational experiments were conducted to evaluate t...

Intelligent Container Stacking System; Seaport Container Terminal

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Berth Allocation Planning for Improving Container Terminal Performances

This paper proposed an integrated model of combining Berth Allocation Problems (BAP) and Quay Cranes Assignments (QCA). It aims to improve terminal performances by minimizing the total service time and vessel transfer rate, especially for those important customers (vessels). A Two-Level Genetic Algorithm (TLGA) approach was proposed for solving the problems. A number of experiments were conduct...

The optimal number of yard cranes in container terminal

The aim of this study is to propose a new mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model to find the minimum required number of yard cranes, Rubber tyred gantry cranes (RTGCs), for completion the total amount of works at the end of planning horizon. In other word, we find the optimal number of yard cranes in a container terminal which completes the total amount of works. The paper supports the p...

Optimizing Container Terminal Operations