A container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles. We focus our attention on the transshipment between vessels and land vehicles, in which case the terminal is described as a maritime container terminal. In these container terminals, many combinatorial related problems appear and the solution of one of the problems may affect to the ...

The berth allocation problem is to allocate space along the quayside to incoming ships at a container terminal in order to minimize some objective function. We consider minimization of total costs for waiting and handling as well as earliness or tardiness of completion, for all ships. We assume ships can arrive at any given time, i.e., before or after the berths become available. The resulting ...

The Berth Allocation Problem aims at assigning and scheduling incoming vessels to berthing positions along the quay of a container terminal. This problem is a well-known optimization problem within maritime shipping. For solving it, we propose two POPMUSIC (Partial Optimization Metaheuristic Under Special Intensification Conditions) approaches that incorporate an existing mathematical programmi...

Truck arrival management (TAM) has been recognized as an effective solution to alleviate the gate congestion at container terminals. To further utilize TAM in improving the overall terminal performance, this study integrates TAM with the other terminal operations at a tactical level. An integrated planning model and a sequential planning model are presented to coordinate the major terminal plan...

Decision support systems and automated planning have become essential for the effective management of seaport container terminals. Due to ever-increasing levels maritime traffic freight transportation, terminals are expected facilitate their intra-yard operations while respecting tighter vessel schedules. Employed models must therefore be capable providing berth allocation decisions which not o...

Maritime container terminals (MCTs) play a fundamental role in international maritime trade, handling inbound, outbound, and transshipped containers. The increasing number of ships containers creates several challenges to MCTs, such as congestion, long waiting times before dock, delayed departures, high service costs. berth allocation problem (BAP) concerns allocating berthing positions arrivin...

With the regular development of global epidemic, port shipping supply is tight. The problem congestion, soaring freight rates, and hard-to-find container space has emerged. This paper proposes a new joint berth-quay crane allocation model, namely E-B&QC, by taking minimum time in ship, cost extra transportation distance for collector trucks land area port, waiting ships. Then, deficiencies spar...