Over the years, the demand for maritime transportation has rapidly increased [1], [2]. This usually leads to an increasing in competition among different ports in providing efficient services. Port managers face significant challenges in efficiently utilizing the given resources to provide a cost-effective service [1]. Among many optimization and decision making problems in the port management ...

Ports are one of transportation’s logistic components crucial to supporting international trade and economic growth. Increasing at an average annual rate of 16%, the Port of Savannah has been America’s fastest-growing port since 2001. Because of this rapid growth, there is a need to develop a cost-effective means to explore and evaluate new productivity improvement alternatives (e.g. a facility...

Berth ~hed.ulin9 is a critical functi?" at marine container terminals and determining the best berth schedule depends on several factors including the type and function of the port, size of the port, location, nearby competition, and type of contractual ~greement between the terminal and the carriers. In this paper we formulate the berth scheduling problem as a bi-objective mixed· Integer probl...

• The BAP and the Quay Cranes Assignment Problem is studied. A mixed integer linear programming model developed. An efficient construction heuristics are proposed. metaheuristic approach designed. Experimental results demonstrate effectiveness of proposal. Berth Allocation two decisive seaside operations planning problems in maritime terminals. Therefore, integrating these critical improving an...

The baseline plan of terminals will be impacted to a certain extent after being affected by uncertain events, such as vessel delay and unscheduled arrival, resulting in disorderly terminal operations, wasted resources, reduced loading unloading efficiency, which further aggravates congestion. To effectively cope with the disturbance operations above events improve operational efficiency contain...