Titles in the Fisheries Research Report series present technical and scientific information for use in management processes. Research Reports are subject to full internal refereeing by senior scientists of the Fisheries Research Division, and in many cases, elements of the work are published in international scientific literature. A preliminary investigation of the potential impacts of the prop...

In this paper, the skew control of the load (container) in the quay crane used in the dockside of a container terminal is investigated. The mathematical model of the 3-dimensional (3D) motions of the load is first derived. The container hooked to a spreader is suspended by four ropes in air. When the container is accelerated by the trolley or is disturbed by winds, it will make a rotational mot...

Abstract Quay cranes are among the most important resources in port terminals, and their efficient use is crucial for terminals to remain competitive market. The problem of determining sequence tasks performed by quay that minimizes turnaround time a vessel an NP‐hard known as crane scheduling (QCSP). In this paper, we consider unidirectional QCSP under uncertain processing times, where only al...

In order to accommodate the growing intercontinental container transport, port facilities have to be up-scaled drastically. The challenge is to develop facilities that can handle a new generation of ships, the jumbo container vessels, with a capacity of 8,000 TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit) or more. The total in-port time to serve these jumbos is set at 24 hours. This amounts to almost double...

This paper addresses the joint quay crane and truck scheduling problem at a container terminal, considering the coordination of the two types of equipment to reduce their idle time between performing two successive tasks. For the unidirectional flow problem with only inbound containers, in which trucks go back to quayside without carrying outbound containers, a mixed-integer linear programming ...

We consider the barge rotation planning and quay scheduling problem in the Port of Rotterdam. This problem concerns the alignment of barge rotations and terminal quay schedules. We use a Multi-Agent based approach for the problem, since such a Multi-Agent based system can mirror to a large extent the way the business network is currently organized. Moreover, it can provide a solution that is ac...

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...