Maritime transportation plays a critical role in global trade as it accounts for over 80% of all merchandise movement. Given the growing volume maritime freight, is vital to have an efficient system handling ships and cargos at ports. The current first-come-first-serve method insufficient maintaining operational efficiency, especially under complicated conditions such parallel scheduling with d...

The key to improve the container terminal efficiency is the integrated optimization of the quay crane (QC) and the yard truck (YT) scheduling, which is normally settled separately and considered in a certain condition in classical literatures. To improve the operation efficiency and simulate the practical operation, a PSO-based integrated QC-YT scheduling optimization model with uncertain facto...

The motivation behind this project is to implement a data stream processing system based on the QUAY system [1]. The prototype called QUAY-FPGA will consist of configurable hardware and software written in the Handel-C language and compiled using the DK design suite [2]. It will be demonstrated that query throughput can be improved by managing memory access patterns and increasing execution par...

In this paper, we consider the optimization of loading sequence and rehandling strategy in the terminal operation. We present an optimization strategy to minimize the number of rehandles, and establish a mathematical model to integrate the loading sequence and the rehandling strategy under the parallel operation of multi-quay cranes. Furthermore, we give an improved genetic algorithm to solve t...

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This paper considers the combination of berth and crane allocation problems in container terminals. We propose a novel approach based on constraint programming able to model many realistic operational constraints. The costs for berth allocation, crane allocation, time windows, breaks and transition times during gang movements are optimized simultaneously. The model is based on a resource view w...