Over the past decades, container transportation has achieved considerable growth, and
maritime trade now constitutes 80% of the global trade. The vessel sizes increased in …

Abstract Container Terminals (CTs) are continuously presented with highly interrelated,
complex, and uncertain planning tasks. The ever-increasing intensity of operations at CTs in …

The efficiency of automated container terminals primarily depends on the automated guided
vehicle (AGV) scheduling scheme. This paper investigates the AGV dispatching and routing …

The scheduling of horizontal transportation equipment in automated container terminals is a
focal area of concern in the port industry. In an automated container terminal with a parallel …

Container terminals play an important role in the transportation of containerized goods in
global supply chains. The number of containers handled in container terminals has …

With the increasing volume of global moving containers and the application of automation
technologies, it is important for container terminals to improve handling efficiency. This …

With the development of information technology, automation and intelligence techniques
have gradually taken place of the manpower in container terminals. The automation of …

The integrated scheduling of multi-equipment in automated container terminals (ACT) is a
focus of attention in port industry. With the application of parallel layout in ACT, the high …

This paper investigates crane scheduling problems for a new type of automated container
terminal system, which is based on multi-storey frame bridges. For the new design concept …

Container terminal capacity, as an important indicator of container terminal competitiveness,
has become a primary concern of port managers, whereas container flows, which are …