Container terminal operation and operations research-a classification and literature review

D Steenken, S Voß, R Stahlbock - OR spectrum, 2004‏ - Springer
In the last four decades the container as an essential part of a unit-load-concept has
achieved undoubted importance in international sea freight transportation. With ever …

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

C Bierwirth, F Meisel - European Journal of Operational Research, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Due to the variety of technical equipments and terminal layouts, research has produced a
multitude of optimization models for seaside operations planning in container terminals. To …

Intermodal transportation

TG Crainic, KH Kim - Handbooks in operations research and management …, 2007‏ - Elsevier
Publisher Summary Intermodal transportation may be defined as the transportation of a
person or a load from its origin to its destination by a sequence of at least two transportation …

The dynamic berth allocation problem for a container port

A Imai, E Nishimura, S Papadimitriou - Transportation Research Part B …, 2001‏ - Elsevier
This paper addresses the problem of determining a dynamic berth assignment to ships in
the public berth system. While the public berth system may not be suitable for most container …

A scheduling method for berth and quay cranes

YM Park, KH Kim - OR spectrum, 2003‏ - Springer
This paper discusses a method for scheduling Berth and Quay cranes, which are critical
resources in port container terminals. An integer programming model is formulated by …

Berth scheduling by simulated annealing

KH Kim, KC Moon - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2003‏ - Elsevier
The objective of the berth-scheduling problem is to determine the berthing times and
positions of containerships in port container terminals. Every vessel requires a specific …

Berth allocation in a container port: using a continuous location space approach

A Imai, X Sun, E Nishimura, S Papadimitriou - Transportation Research Part …, 2005‏ - Elsevier
This paper addresses the berth allocation problem in a multi-user container terminal. There
are two typical schemes for berth allocation: one in discrete locations and the other in …

Berth allocation planning in the public berth system by genetic algorithms

E Nishimura, A Imai, S Papadimitriou - European Journal of Operational …, 2001‏ - Elsevier
This paper addresses the problem of determining a dynamic berth assignment to ships in
the public berth system. While the public berth system may not be suitable for most container …

Berth allocation with service priority

A Imai, E Nishimura, S Papadimitriou - Transportation Research Part B …, 2003‏ - Elsevier
Over the past several years, port related charges in Japanese ports have been substantially
higher than those charged in other major international hub ports. All major container ports in …

A decision support system for operations in a container terminal

KG Murty, J Liu, Y Wan, R Linn - Decision support systems, 2005‏ - Elsevier
We describe a variety of inter-related decisions made during daily operations at a container
terminal. The ultimate goal of these decisions is to minimize the berthing time of vessels, the …