An Integrated Approach to Managing Vessel Service in Seaports Efficient vessel service is of utmost importance the maritime supply chain. When serving a group incoming vessels, berth allocation and pilotage planning are two most important decisions made by seaport. Although they closely correlated, problem often solved sequentially, leading suboptimal or even infeasible solutions for services. ...

Truck arrival management (TAM) has been recognized as an effective solution to alleviate the gate congestion at container terminals. To further utilize TAM in improving the overall terminal performance, this study integrates TAM with the other terminal operations at a tactical level. An integrated planning model and a sequential planning model are presented to coordinate the major terminal plan...

Maritime container terminals (MCTs) play a fundamental role in international maritime trade, handling inbound, outbound, and transshipped containers. The increasing number of ships containers creates several challenges to MCTs, such as congestion, long waiting times before dock, delayed departures, high service costs. berth allocation problem (BAP) concerns allocating berthing positions arrivin...

We investigate an optimization problem in container ports, for which previous models based on generalized set partitioning formulations have been studied. We describe two combinatorial relaxations based on computing maximum weighted matchings in suitable graphs. Besides dual bounds, those also provide a variable reduction technique and a matheuristic. Computational results indicate that the alg...

This paper proposed an integrated model of combining Berth Allocation Problems (BAP) and Quay Cranes Assignments (QCA). It aims to improve terminal performances by minimizing the total service time and vessel transfer rate, especially for those important customers (vessels). A Two-Level Genetic Algorithm (TLGA) approach was proposed for solving the problems. A number of experiments were conduct...

Container terminals are facilities where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation. They are open systems that carry out a large number of different combinatorial problems that can be solved by means of Artificial Intelligence techniques. In this work, we focus our attention on scheduling a number of incoming vessels by assigning to each a...