The intermodal points of any transport chain are crucial for its overall efficiency. Sea Traffic Management (STM), and its sub-concept Port Collaborative Decision Making (PortCDM), can play a vital role in improving the overall efficiency of the maritime transport chain. Inspired by a similar concept applied for collaborative decision making within and between airports, PortCDM is a way of esta...

We consider a container operator, who serves a number of shipping lines by discharging and loading their periodically arriving container vessels. Disruptions on vessels’ travel times lead to stochastic arrivals in the port. To cope with these disturbances, the operator and each vessel line agree on two types of arrivals: arrivals i) within, and ii) out of a so-called arrival window. If a vessel...

In this paper we look at the longer term impact of double cycling on port operations including crane, vessel, and berth productivity. Double cycling is a technique by which empty crane moves are converted into productive ones. We use a double cycling sequence that is operationally convenient, easy to model, and nearly optimum. We compare the performance of this sequence to those determined by a...

The good performance of the port activities in terminals is mainly conditioned by dynamic response moored ship system at a berth. An adequate definition highly multivariate processes involved berth crucial for an appropriate characterization operability. availability efficient forecast movements ships essential planning, performance, and safety development operations. In this paper, inference m...

The optimal assignment of berth slots and cranes to shipping services is the central logistics problem at modern marine container terminals and should be formulated to specifically account for its stochastic nature. We use a computational grid to solve a major seaport logistic problem by a simulation optimization approach centred around a queuing network model of the logistic process of interes...