This paper considers the effectiveness of a truck appointment system in improving the yard efficiency of the container terminal. This research uses truck appointment information to improve the import container retrieval operation and reduce container rehandles by adopting an advanced container location assignment algorithm. By reducing the container rehandles, the terminal could improve yard cr...

Owing that the internal trucks (ITs) are frequently used as transportation equipments between yards and quaysides, the transportation efficiency of ITs secures a crucial position in container terminal productivity. Hence, a container terminal cannot contain a big number of ITs. As such, it is an imperative to explore an appropriate IT assignment strategy. Specifically for those container termin...

The Container Loading Problem (CLP) belongs to an area of active research and has numerous applications in the real world, particularly in container transportation and distribution industries. When solving the CLP, normally, the goal is to distribute a set of rectangular pieces (boxes) in one large rectangular object (container) so as to maximize the total volume of packed boxes. However, a rat...

This paper proposes a new scheduling method for a marshaling in the container yard terminal. The proposed method is derived based on Q-Learning algorithm considering the desired position of containers that are to be loaded into a ship. In the method, 3 processes can be optimized simultaneously: rearrangement order of containers, layout of containers assuring explicit transfer of container to th...

The undersigned certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis entitled " In-Container Testing for Web Portal Applications " submitted by Wenliang Xiong in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science. Abstract In order to test interactions between container and components, a mechanism is required to intercept ...

significant advantages of intermodal and containerized transport have increased the global interest to this mode of transportation. this growing interest is reflected in the annual volume of container cargo growth. however, the container transport inside iran does not have a proper place. comparing the count of containers entering and leaving ports with the statistics obtained from railway and ...

Disposal packages containing high heat generating spent nuclear fuels (SNF) require improved heat transfer to keep the peak cladding temperature from going above the tolerance limit. Filling the accessible void spaces between the container and the SNF with a high heat conducting metal is a potential solution. In metal casting, it is well known that a gap forms at the metal-mold interface due to...

Recent research on maritime ports hinterlands points out the relevance of mass ground transport modes such as barge transport for enormous flows of containers to and from harbours, especially when a maritime port is located at the mouth of a river. Though, the modal share of container barge transport in French maritime ports (9% of TEU in Le Havre and 5% in Marseille in 2007) is significantly l...