A follow-up survey of berth allocation and quay crane scheduling problems in container terminals

C Bierwirth, F Meisel - European Journal of Operational Research, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper surveys recent publications on berth allocation, quay crane assignment, and
quay crane scheduling problems in seaport container terminals. It continues the survey of …

A comprehensive review of quay crane scheduling, yard operations and integrations thereof in container terminals

D Kizilay, DT Eliiyi - Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 2021 - Springer
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 …

A generalized classification scheme for crane scheduling with interference

N Boysen, D Briskorn, F Meisel - European Journal of Operational …, 2017 - Elsevier
Nowadays, many industries rely on cranes for efficiently executing storage and retrieval
operations of goods. Areas of application are, for instance, container logistics in seaports …

Scheduling quay cranes and yard trucks for unloading operations in container ports

L Zhen, S Yu, S Wang, Z Sun - Annals of Operations Research, 2019 - Springer
This paper studies an integrated optimization problem on quay crane and yard truck
scheduling in container terminals. A mixed-integer programming model is formulated. For …

A simulation-based Genetic Algorithm approach for the quay crane scheduling under uncertainty

N Al-Dhaheri, A Jebali, A Diabat - Simulation Modelling Practice and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The fast-paced growth in containerized trade market sparks the need for efficient operations
at seaport container terminals. One major determinant of terminal efficiency is the …

The quay crane scheduling problem with nonzero crane repositioning time and vessel stability constraints

N Al-Dhaheri, A Jebali, A Diabat - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
The continuous growth in worldwide container terminals' traffic resulted in an increasing
interest for the Quay Crane Scheduling Problem (QCSP) in research and practice. This …

The quay crane scheduling problem with non-crossing and safety clearance constraints: An exact solution approach

O Abou Kasm, A Diabat - Computers & Operations Research, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper considers the Quay Crane Scheduling Problem (QCSP) with non-crossing and
safety clearance constraints for a single vessel. The problem determines the order of …

Gantry crane scheduling in intermodal rail-road container terminals

P Guo, W Cheng, Y Wang, N Boysen - International Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Modern rail-road container terminals serve as important consolidation nodes in intermodal
transportation networks where containers are transferred between freight trains and trucks …

Exact methods for the quay crane scheduling problem when tasks are modeled at the single container level

MK Msakni, A Diabat, G Rabadi, M Al-Salem… - Computers & Operations …, 2018 - Elsevier
The scheduling of quay cranes (QCs) to minimize the handling time of a berthed vessel is
one of the most important operations in container terminals as it impacts the terminal's …

A Lagrangian relaxation-based heuristic for the multi-ship quay crane scheduling problem with ship stability constraints

N Al-Dhaheri, A Diabat - Annals of Operations Research, 2017 - Springer
The quay crane scheduling problem is one of the major problems of quayside operational
planning in container terminals. The operational efficiency of quay cranes is a large …