A Literature Review on Container Handling in Yard Blocks

Covic, Filip

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“…Yard-side operations may be divided into three sub-fields: yard cranes management, yard vehicles management, and yard space management [96]. Yard space management further includes storage space allocation, container stacking, pre-marshalling, re-marshalling and retrieving [97]. Most of these planning activities are closely related to container relocation (also called reshuffling or rehandling).…”

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A Literature Review, Container Shipping Supply Chain: Planning Problems and Research Opportunities

Song

2021

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This paper provides an overview of the container shipping supply chain (CSSC) by taking a logistics perspective, covering all major value-adding segments in CSSC including freight logistics, container logistics, vessel logistics, port/terminal logistics, and inland transport logistics. The main planning problems and research opportunities in each logistics segment are reviewed and discussed to promote further research. Moreover, the two most important challenges in CSSC, digitalization and decarbonization, are explained and discussed in detail. We raise awareness of the extreme fragmentation of CSSC that causes inefficient operations. A pathway to digitalize container shipping is proposed that requires the applications of digital technologies in various business processes across five logistics segments, and change in behaviors and relationships of stakeholders in the supply chain. We recognize that shipping decarbonization is likely to take diverse pathways with different fuel/energy systems for ships and ports. This gives rise to more research and application opportunities in the highly uncertain and complex CSSC environment.

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A Literature Review, Container Shipping Supply Chain: Planning Problems and Research Opportunities

Song

2021

Logistics

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“…Several surveys on port operations can be found in the literature. While some concentrate on yard management, such as Carlo et al (2014a, b); Covic (2018); Lehnfeld and Knust (2014); and Zhen (2013), others study quayside operations as in Meisel (2010, 2015) and Carlo et al (2015). Most surveys introduce the equipment used in the container terminals, and various optimization models (Stahlbock and Voß 2008;Steenken et al 2004;Vis and de Koster 2003).…”

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

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2020

Flex Serv Manuf J

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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 parallel, up to 21,400 TEU (Twenty-foot-equivalent unit container). Accordingly, global containerized trade reached up to 150 million TEU in 2017 (UNCTAD 2018). This growth brings the need to use scientific methods to manage and operate container terminals more economically throughout the globe. In order to manage container transshipment and to use large vessels efficiently, the docking time at the container port for each vessel should be minimized. The decrease in the docking time enables the vessel to move to its next destination faster, decreasing turnover time and facilitating more containers to be transported. Container terminals can be divided into five main areas as the berth, the quay, the storage yard, the transport area, and the gate. The vessels must be berthed in suitable positions, after which many containers have to be unloaded or loaded via quay cranes, transshipped by vehicles inside the terminal, and stacked by yard cranes to suitable positions, all by using expensive equipment. With the invention of new technologies, the bottleneck at the berth side is almost overcome; however, the yard and the quayside operations have to be further perfected to obtain efficient plans. In this comprehensive literature review study, we aim to combine the literature on both yard and quayside operations, carefully examining independently studied problems as well as integrated ones. General information about port operations and relevant literature is provided. For the quayside, the literature on quay crane assignment and scheduling problems is investigated, whereas, for the yard side, yard crane scheduling, transport vehicle dispatching and scheduling, vehicle routing and traffic control, and storage location and space planning problems are reviewed in depth. In addition to these individual problems, their integrations are also analyzed, relevant publications and their respective contributions are explained in detail. Besides the milestone papers that lead the literature on container terminals, recent publications and advances are also reviewed, and managerial insights and future research directions are identified.

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A Literature Review on Container Handling in Yard Blocks

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A Literature Review, Container Shipping Supply Chain: Planning Problems and Research Opportunities

A Literature Review, Container Shipping Supply Chain: Planning Problems and Research Opportunities

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

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