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 …

Problems of loading, unloading and premarshalling of stacks as well as combinations
thereof appear in several practical applications, eg container terminals, container ship …

Sustainability agendas are challenging port authorities around the world to find ways of
operating and managing their ports efficiently and effectively in terms of economic, social, as …

Operations research techniques have helped optimize container terminal operations over
the past decades and have been a regular feature of maritime logistics and maritime supply …

The container relocation problem, where containers that are stored in bays are retrieved in a
fixed sequence, is a crucial port operation. Existing approaches using branch and bound …

Due to the stringent timeliness requirements of temperature-controlled cargoes and
distinctive storage operations of refrigerated container (RC), it is imperative to optimize the …

The blocks relocation problem is a classic combinatorial optimisation problem that occurs in
daily operations for facilities that use block stacking systems. In the block stacking method …

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 …

In this paper we present an ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm for the Blocks
Relocation Problem (BRP). The method is applied to both versions of the problem most …

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 …