The factory crane scheduling problem (FCSP) deals with assigning delivery tasks to cranes and then sequencing them, in order to minimize the total completion time for all tasks. In this paper, delivery tasks for required jobs are preemptive allowed at most once before the jobs arrive at exit. The preemptive jobs are temporarily stored in a buffer stack, in which jobs pickup and delivery should ...

The tremendous increase of containerized trade over the last several years, the resulting congestion in container terminals worldwide, the remarkable increase in containership size and capacity, the increased operating cost of container vessels and the adoption by liner shipping companies of yield management techniques strain the relationships between ocean carriers and container terminal opera...

The Layout of the Field Stacking containers is an important thing to consider because it can affect effectiveness loading and unloading process in field by arranging facilities stacking Yard including Rubber Gantry Crane (RTG) arrangement lane Head Truck. So, necessary research determining containers. design that will be made distance head truck travels transport from dock. In several studies, ...

Abstract To enable the efficient division of labor in container yards, many large ports apply twin cranes, two identical automated stacking cranes each dedicated to one transfer zones on seaside and landside. The use a handshake area, bay containers that separates areas is simple means avoid crane interference. Inbound arriving zone position other crane’s area are placed intermediately by first...

A hierarchical production planning approach for multiprocessor flow shops p. 9 Representing labor demands in airport ground staff scheduling p. 15 Rapid mathematical programming or how to solve Sudoku puzzles in a few seconds p. 21 Standortplanung von Einsatzkraften bei Grossereignissen p. 29 Customer selection and profit maximization in vehicle routing problems p. 37 A decision support system ...

With advancements of quay side equipments and technologies, the bottleneck of port operations has moved from quay side to yard side. The yard management of a port has significant influences on the competitiveness of a port in the global shipping network. The research area of yard management has attracted a lot of attentions from both the academia and the industrial practitioners. This paper giv...