A comparison between conventional and advanced handling systems for low volume container maritime terminals

Βallis, Athanasios; Golias, John; Abarkoumkin, C.

doi:10.1080/03088839700000057

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“…Port capacity can be increased by physically expanding existing ones (McCalla, 1999), but this is at considerable cost and effort (Pellegram, 2001). Other options include adding conventional equipment or improving the productivity by new forms of technology as analysed by Ballis et al (1997), work organisation as suggested by Paixão and Marlow (2003) or by information systems such as elaborated by Henesey (2006).…”

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confidence: 98%

The dry port concept: connecting container seaports with the hinterland

Roso

Woxenius

Lumsden

2009

Journal of Transport Geography

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

The dry port concept: connecting container seaports with the hinterland

Roso

Woxenius

Lumsden

2009

Journal of Transport Geography

415

294

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“…In scientific literature, many contributions are available on the HCS of container ports, such as single-equipment scheduling, resources allocation and integrated scheduling (Han et al, 2010;Luo et al,2011;Said et al,2015;Türkoğulları et al, 2016) [6][7][8][9] in order to increase efficiency. Many methodologies, such as adopting new technologies, work organization models and information systems (Ballis et al, 1997;Paixão et al, 2003;Facchini et al, 2017) [10][11][12] have been proposed to identify optimal solutions in the planning and management of container port HCS to reduce transit time and related operation costs. Traditionally, the HCS in container ports have been studied separately and independently for the three main machines.…”

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“…In QSMC and ISMC, the exponential reaching law in (10) is employed and the saturation function is used to replace sign function to reduce chattering. According to (10), ε=0.5, ∆=0.05, k=1 in QSMC and ISMC; and according to (33), α=0.8, β=4 in SMC-P.…”

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Exploring the Resilience of Uncertain Nonlinear Handling Chain Systems in Container Ports With a Novel Sliding Mode Control

Yang

et al. 2021

IEEE Access

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Uncertain handling chain system (HCS) of container ports brings steady-state error to the original control decisions, and even worse, dramatically degrades the system performance. The steady-state error will cause unsatisfied freight requirement to be much higher than the expected value for a long time, resulting in the decrease of system robustness and resilience. In this work, a novel sliding mode control with power integral reaching law (SMC-P) is presented for nonlinear HCS of container ports under uncertainty. Specifically, the integral of system state variable, the exponential reaching law and the power of the switching function are integrated to the traditional reaching law. And it is proven that the eliminated steady-state error, the accelerated approach speed, and the reduced chattering can be effectively obtained by SMC-P. A nonlinear HCS in container ports with uncertain freight requirement and handling ability is considered. SMC-P is compared with traditional method, genetic algorithm, quasi-sliding mode control and integral sliding mode control. Simulation results show that SMC-P does not only balance both steady-state error reduction and chattering avoidance caused by uncertainty, but also optimize the performance, robustness, and resilience of the uncertain nonlinear HCS. This study also brings economic and sustainability contributions for port authorities. INDEX TERMS Resilience, uncertain nonlinear handling chain system, sliding mode control, power integral reaching law

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“…Furthermore, the second Panama Canal expansion (which may be considered as necessary in order to serve larger vessels) is practically infeasible (Ashar, 2013). In order to meet the growing demand for the waterborne trade, along with construction of new ports (McCalla, 1999), the port operations efficiency can be increased through: 1 -new technology deployment for enhancing the operational efficiency of the conventional equipment (Ballis, Golias, & Abarkoumkin, 1997), 2 -deployment of innovative information systems (Henesey, 2004), and 3 -work organization improvement (Paixao & Bernard Marlow, 2003). The remainder of this dissertation is structured as follows.…”

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Innovative Metaheuristic Algorithms for Efficient Berth Scheduling at Marine Container Terminals; Masoud Kavoosi; Dissertation; 2019

Kavoosi

2020

Preprint

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International trade plays a critical role for the global economy. A significant portion of general consumption goods is transported by vessels in a containerized form. Increasing volumes of the containerized trade impose additional pressure on marine container terminals (MCTs), which are responsible for service of incoming vessels from different liner shipping companies. MCTs are considered as important nodes in supply chains, as they allow transfer of containers from vessels to one of the alternative inland modes (generally, truck or rail). Managing operations within MCTs is a quite challenging task not only due to increasing seaborne trade volumes, but also due to increasing number of liner shipping alliances, deployment of megaships by liner shipping companies, inability to expand the terminal size due to spatial constraints, and other factors. Another important goal for the MCT operator is to ensure the timely service of vessels, as the vessel service delays may result in potential disruption of liner shipping schedules, and ultimately cause product delivery delays to the final customers.This dissertation focuses on addressing complex decision problems, which are faced by the MCT operators. The seaside operations, which deal with loading and unloading of vessels, will be of a primary interest, as they affect the total turnaround time of vessels. The latter is considered as one of the key performance indicators for the MCT operations. As many of decision problems related to the seaside operations, cannot be solved using the exact optimization algorithms (e.g., Simplex, Branch-and-Bound, Brach-and-Cut) within a reasonable computational time for the realistic size problem instances, a number of metaheuristic algorithms will be proposed (with a primary focus on Evolutionary Algorithms, which have been widely used in different fields for solving combinatorial decision problems). The proposed metaheuristic algorithms are expected to serve as efficient decision making tools for the MCT operators and facilitate exchange of freight flows between water and inland transportation modes.

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A comparison between conventional and advanced handling systems for low volume container maritime terminals

Cited by 27 publications

References 1 publication

The dry port concept: connecting container seaports with the hinterland

The dry port concept: connecting container seaports with the hinterland

Exploring the Resilience of Uncertain Nonlinear Handling Chain Systems in Container Ports With a Novel Sliding Mode Control

Innovative Metaheuristic Algorithms for Efficient Berth Scheduling at Marine Container Terminals; Masoud Kavoosi; Dissertation; 2019

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