Inbound and outbound containers are temporarily stored in the storage yard at container
terminals. A combination of container demand increase and storage yard capacity scarcity …

Owing to a rapid growth in world trade and a large increase in the flow of containerized
goods, sea container terminals play a vital role in globe-spanning supply chains. Container …

To reduce unproductive picker walking in traditional picker-to-parts warehousing systems,
automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are used to support human order pickers. In an AGV …

In order to increase the order picking efficiency, e-commerce retailers have started to
implement order picking systems where mobile robots carry inventory pods to pick stations …

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 …

This paper studies the effect of a handshake area on the performance of twin automated
stacking cranes (ASCs) operating on top of a stack with transfer zones at both seaside and …

Annually, millions of containers enter and exit the stacking area of a terminal. If the stacking
operations are not efficient, long ship, train, and truck delays will result. To improve the …

This paper introduces a novel optimization problem resulting from the combination of two
major existing problems arising at storage yards in container terminals. The Yard Crane …

Commonly in container terminals, the containers are stored in yards on top of each other
using yard cranes. The split-platform storage/retrieval system (SP-AS/RS) has been invented …

This paper studies the storage yard management problem in a busy transshipment hub,
where intense loading and unloading activities have to be considered at the same time. The …