Container terminals mainly include three types of handling equipment, i.e., quay cranes (QCs), internal trucks (ITs) and yard cranes (YCs). Due to high cost of the handling equipment, container terminals can hardly purchase additional handling equipment. Therefore, the reasonable scheduling of these handling equipment, especially coordinated scheduling of the three types of handling equipment, ...

The paper studied a multi-machine and multi-task warehouse crane scheduling problem. The collision between adjacent cranes needs to be avoided in the scheduling problem. Considering the involved operation requirement and condition, a process simulation model was formulated to evaluate a candidate crane schedule through rehearsing the crane operation process. Based on the process simulation, an ...

This report compares the performance of three double-cycling algorithms used to determine the sequence with which to load and unload containers from a vessel with a quay crane. Double cycling is a technique which can improve the efficiency of a quay crane and container port by unloading and loading containers in the same crane cycle. The three algorithms, the greedy strategy, the proximal strat...

The container crane is a key machine in ports. Over the past 15 years, modeling and control of quay cranes for automating ports has been the main research issue. In this paper, crane models and control methodologies appeared in the literature are reviewed. A generalized formulation of the most widely used crane model is introduced. Various control techniques are briefly discussed. In conclusion...

This study discusses the development of tactical-level integrated planning at seaport container terminals in an uncertain environment.

Over the past two decades, maritime transportation and container traffic worldwide has experienced rapid and continuous growth. With the increase in maritime transportation volume, the issue of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission has become one of the new concerns for port managers. Port managers and government agencies for sustainable development of maritime transportation considered "green ports" t...

We consider a port consisting of a cluster of inter-related terminals, where container vessels arrive cyclically. The problem is to strategically assign a terminal and a time interval of berthing to each of the vessels in the cycle. Restricting properties are terminal quay lengths and quay crane capacity. Conflicting objectives are i) minimizing the number of required quay cranes, ii) minimizin...

This section provides detailed results for all sets of benchmark instances introduced by Meisel [1]. The notations of problems characteristics are the same as ones used in Meisel [1]. Loc indicates the distributions of tasks on the vessel, f indicates the the handling rate, d is the precedence density, q is the number of QCs, and s is the safety distance. The signs ∗ and ▲ respectively indicate...