One of the answers to the ever-increasing transhipment volumes that are required within the same timeframe at the quays of the world's large container ports, is the automation of the processes. However, until now ECT in Rotterdam and HHLA (CTA) in Hamburg are still the only two stevedores that have fully automated the transport from quay to stack as well as the stacking operations. Both operato...

Crane scheduling in container terminals is known as a difficult optimization problem that has become even more challenging in recent years with the proliferation of multi-gantry automated stacking cranes. In this paper we present an efficient algorithm solving a subproblem arising in this context, namely deciding the priority of cranes after transportation tasks have been assigned. We tackle th...

This paper addresses the problem of determining stowage plans for containers in a ship, that is the so-called master bay plan problem (MBPP). MBPP is NP-complete [Botter, R.C., Brinati, M.A., 1992. Stowage container planning: A model for getting an optimal solution. IFIP Transactions B (Applications in Technology) B-5, 217–229; Avriel, M., Penn, M., Shpirer, N., 2000. Container ship stowage pro...

In this paper, we study the impact of using a new intelligent vehicle technology on the performance and total cost of a European port, in comparison with existing vehicle systems like trucks. Intelligent autonomous vehicles (IAVs) are a new type of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) with better maneuverability and a special ability to pick up/drop off containers by themselves. To identify the mos...

With the regular development of global epidemic, port shipping supply is tight. The problem congestion, soaring freight rates, and hard-to-find container space has emerged. This paper proposes a new joint berth-quay crane allocation model, namely E-B&QC, by taking minimum time in ship, cost extra transportation distance for collector trucks land area port, waiting ships. Then, deficiencies spar...

The motivation for this thesis resulted from a study of semi-automated rail mounted gantry cranes at an Australian seaport container terminal. The Sequential Ordering Problem with Time Windows (SOP-TW) can arise as a subproblem of these crane operations. The SOP-TW corresponds to the task of scheduling a single crane to move a set of containers, where each container has: a fixed pick-up locatio...

A U-shaped automated container terminal (ACT) has been proposed for the first time globally and adopted to construct Beibu Gulf Port ACT. In this ACT layout, double cantilevered rail crane (DCRC) simultaneously provides loading unloading services external trucks (ECTs) automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) entering yard. The DCRC a complex scheduling coupling relationship with AGV ECT, its mathemati...

Sea port container terminals play an important role in the national and regional economy. The integrated scheduling of handling equipment has been recently investigated in literature to improve the performance of the container terminals. In this paper, an integrated scheduling of quay cranes and automated guided vehicles is formulated as a mixed integer linear programming model. This model mini...

This paper focuses on the operational and strategic planning decisions related to the quayside of container terminals. We introduce an integrated operational research (OR) and system dynamics (SD) approach to solve the Berth Allocation Problem (BAP) and the Quay Crane Assignment Problem (QCAP). A BAPQCAP optimization modeling approach which considers practical aspects not studied before in the ...