This paper introduces a new generation of Automated Guided Vehicles, called IPSI® AGVs, which are evaluated in the operations of a Container Terminal. The objective is to identify number of automated guided vehicles and cassettes required in order to that a number of cranes will not be idle during ship loading and unloading operations. A protocol called Contract Net is evaluated in the coordina...

At container terminals, containers are transshipped from one mode of transportation to another. Within a terminal different types of material handling equipment are used to transship containers from ships to barges, trucks and trains and vice versa. Over the past decades, ships have strongly increased in size, up to 8000 TEU (Twenty feet equivalent unit container). In order to use these big shi...

This paper considers the problem of vehicle dispatching at port container terminals in a dynamic environment. The problem deals with the assignment of delivery orders of containers to vehicles while taking into consideration the uncertainty in the travel times of the vehicles. Thus, a real-time vehicle dispatching algorithm is proposed for adaptation to the dynamic changes in the states of the ...

The WHO has released multiple recommendations such as safe processing of laboratory samples,[6] employing standard precautions for all patients regardless of the their clinical presentation,[7] isolation of the confirmed/ suspected cases in isolation wards,[7] regulating the movement of health workers and family members in isolation rooms,[5] ensuring continuous usage of personal protective equ...

Cloud containers represent a new, light-weight alternative to virtual machines in cloud computing. A user job may be described by a container graph that specifies the resource profile of each container and container dependence relations. This work is the first in the cloud computing literature that designs efficient market mechanisms for container based cloud jobs. Our design targets simultaneo...

Current development of IT technologies makes it possible to automate production processes in the transport industry. Introducing automated systems helps reduce downtime vehicles under loading and unloading operations. Handling various loads or specializing a certain cargo flow, terminal operator selects lifting equipment degree its automation. Automation has been most developed at container ter...

This paper proposes a new scheduling method for a marshaling in the container yard terminal. The proposed method is derived based on Q-Learning algorithm considering the desired position of containers that are to be loaded into a ship. In the method, 3 processes can be optimized simultaneously: rearrangement order of containers, layout of containers assuring explicit transfer of container to th...

Container terminal operators worldwide have expressed the need for accurate real-time accounting of the incoming, outgoing and existing inventory. Container Optical Code Recognition (OCR) provides systems which can be integrated with RFID tags in order to give more accurate information to Maritime Supply Chain Management. The implementation of OCR systems for feasible identification and trackin...

In this contribution we present a generic object oriented simulation model for overland transport of containers. The main entities in the model are containers, container terminals and vehicles for transportation of containers. A terminal or service center may have several handling centres which are the nodal points for inter terminal transport (ITT). Handling centres possess equipment for loadi...

Current practice and shortcomings of handling digital hypermedia documents on the Internet are investigated. The WebPack format is de ned to eliminate some of these shortcomings. The structure and operations of this new container format are discussed, and the use of WebPack in document management is explained.