We study the problems associated with allocating berths for containerships in the port of Seville. It is the only inland port in Spain and it is located on the Guadalquivir River. This paper addresses the berth allocation planning problems using simulation and optimisation with Arena software. We propose a mathematical model and develop a heuristic procedure based on genetic algorithm to solve ...

A marine container terminal operator may have a situation with excessive calling requests to be served especially when some new service contracts are under consideration. For this situation, we propose a strategic berth template problem (BTPS) that selects the ships among the requesting ones to be served and arranges their berth-windows within a limited planning horizon. The BTPS employs the su...

This paper addresses the problem of determining a dynamic berth assignment to ships in the public berth system. While the public berth system may not be suitable for most container ports in major countries, it is desired for higher cost-e€ectiveness in Japan's ports. The berth allocation to calling ships is a key factor for ecient public berthing. However, it is not calculated in polynomially-...

One of the primary modes for worldwide trade of goods is maritime transport, which is exposed to rapid growth. In order to handle the increase of the traffic in ports, optimization of port operations has been studied and implemented in the past. In container terminals, significant amount of work has been done in the field of large scale optimization. In published literature, the main focus lies...

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...

Most of the operational problems in container terminals are strongly interconnected. In this paper, we study the integrated berth allocation and quay crane assignment problem in seaport container terminals. We will extend the current stateof-the-art by proposing novel set partitioning models. To improve the performance of the set partitioning formulations, a number of variable reduction techniq...