Container terminals are facilities where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation. They are open systems that carry out a large number of different combinatorial problems that can be solved by means of Artificial Intelligence techniques. In this work, we focus our attention on scheduling a number of incoming vessels by assigning to each a...

The purpose of this study is to meet the maneuverability requirements Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) in different conditions by effective use bow and stern thruster, thus completing automatic berthing task. Based on MMG model, mathematical model USV with thruster was established. And motion simulation maneuvering carried out through numerical calculation. Then plan designed basedon analysis low...

With more goods to be transported oversea, traffic and vessels’ dimensions increase while berthing areas merely remain constant thus challenge ship masters pilots maneuver in small basins with dense even bad weather situations. Too fast approaches or steep angles of attack result damages fenders, quay walls, impact the hull structure. We propose a shore-based, vessel-independent assistant syste...

The Berth Allocation Problem (BAP) consists on programming and allocating ships to berthing areas along a quay. The BAP is modeled as a vehicle routing problem and a recently proposed evolutionary hybrid method denominated PTA/LP is used to solve it. The PTA/LP combines the Population Training Algorithm with Linear Programming to generate improving incoming columns in a column generation proces...