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

Bierwirth, Christian; Meisel, Frank

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2009.05.031

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“…Recent extensions of the BAP are integrated planning of berth allocation and quay cranes [19][20][21]. For a container terminal, effective berth and quay crane schedules have a great influence on the improvement of both operations.…”

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A Simulation-Based Optimization Approach for Integrated Port Resource Allocation Problem

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Sheikholeslami

Hassannayebi

2014

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A Simulation-Based Optimization Approach for Integrated Port Resource Allocation Problem

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Sheikholeslami

Hassannayebi

2014

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“…Some of the most active areas within the container industry are the berth allocation problem (see e.g. (Bierwirth and Meisel, 2010)), stowage plans for container vessels (see e.g. (Delgado et al, 2012)) and the container stacking problem (see e.g.…”

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A new approach to the Container Positioning Problem

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In this paper the Container Positioning Problem is revisited. This problem arises at busy container terminals and requires one to minimize the use of block cranes in handling the containers that must wait at the terminal until their next means of transportation. We propose a new Mixed Integer Programming model that not only improves on earlier attempts at this problem, but also better reflects reality. In particular, the proposed model adopts a preference to reshuffle containers in line with a just-in-time concept, as it is assumed that data is more accurate the closer to a container's scheduled departure the time is. Other important improvements include a reduction in the model size, and the ability of the model to consider containers initially at the terminal. In addition, we describe several classes of valid inequalities for this new formulation and present a rolling horizon based heuristic for solving larger instances of the problem. We show that this new formulation drastically outperforms previous attempts at the problem through a direct comparison on instances available in the literature. Furthermore, we also show that the rolling horizon based heuristic can further reduce the solution time on the larger of these instances as well as find acceptable solutions to much bigger, artificially generated, instances.

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“…To show similarities and differences in the existing models for berth allocation, Bierwirth and Meisel [3] developed a classification scheme according to four attributes (see Figure 3.4). The spatial attribute concerns the berth layout and water depth restrictions.…”

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A decision support system for managing combinatorial problems in container terminals

Salido

Rodriguez-Molins

Barber

2012

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

Cited by 666 publications

References 86 publications

A Simulation-Based Optimization Approach for Integrated Port Resource Allocation Problem

A Simulation-Based Optimization Approach for Integrated Port Resource Allocation Problem

A new approach to the Container Positioning Problem

A decision support system for managing combinatorial problems in container terminals

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