Storage space allocation problem at inland bulk material stockyard

Integrated Storage Space Allocation and Ship Scheduling Problem in Bulk Cargo Terminals

This study is motivated by the practice of large iron and steel companies, which have steady and heavy demands for bulk raw materials such as iron ore, coal, limestone and so on. These materials are usually transported to a bulk cargo terminal by ships (or to a station by trains). Once discharged, they are moved to and stored in bulk material stock yard, waiting for retrieval for production use...

Stockyard dimensioning for dry bulk terminals

1 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1 2 Storage factor .................................................................................................... 2 3 Parameters which determine storage factor ................................................... 2 3.1 The interarrival time distribution ..................

The Tank Allocation Problem in Bulk Shipping

Storage space allocation in container terminals

Container terminals are essential intermodal interfaces in the global transportation network. Efficient container handling at terminals is important in reducing transportation costs and keeping shipping schedules. In this paper, we study the storage space allocation problem in the storage yards of terminals. This problem is related to all the resources in terminal operations, including quay cra...

A Genetic algorithm to solve the container storage space allocation problem

This paper presented a genetic algorithm (GA) to solve the container storage problem in the port. This problem is studied with different container types such as regular, open side, open top, tank, empty and refrigerated containers. The objective of this problem is to determine an optimal containers arrangement, which respects customers’ delivery deadlines, reduces the re-handle operations of co...