Advanced methods for container stacking

Dekker, Rommert; Voogd, Patrick; Asperen, Eelco van

doi:10.1007/s00291-006-0038-3

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“…The academic literature on stacking problems is scant but growing, perhaps because the problem does not easily lend itself to analytical solutions (Dekker et al 2006). In an overview paper on operations research at container terminals, Stahlbock and Voss (2008) looked at a number of aspects of container terminal operations.…”

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“…For the latter category few papers exist. We like to mention Dekker et al (2006) and Borgman et al (2010), who compare several stacking rules in a simulation study for an automated container terminal. This paper builds forth on their results.…”

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“…In this paper we investigate the impact of more accurate departure time information for truck exports (containers that leave the container terminal by truck) that becomes available after the container has been stacked. This paper builds on our prior work regarding container terminal stacking (Dekker et al 2006;van Asperen 2009;Borgman et al 2010). In these studies we focus on the short term decision to allocate an incoming container to a stacking position.…”

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Evaluating impact of truck announcements on container stacking efficiency

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Dekker

2011

Flex Serv Manuf J

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Container stacking rules are an important factor in container terminal efficiency. We build on prior research and use a discrete-event simulation model to evaluate the impact of a truck announcement system on the performance of online container stacking rules. The information that is contained in the announcement, i.e., the expected departure time for an import container, can be used to schedule pre-emptive remarshall moves. These moves can then be performed when the workload is low in order to decrease the export time and the crane workload at peak times.

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Evaluating impact of truck announcements on container stacking efficiency

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“…(Delgado et al, 2012)) and the container stacking problem (see e.g. (Dekker et al, 2006)). For a general overview on OR in container terminals, the reader is referred to the excellent surveys (Steenken et al, 2004;Stahlbock and Voß, 2008).…”

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“…Furthermore, technological advances have resulted in container vessels that are capable of transporting many more containers than before (see e.g. (Dekker et al, 2006)). This ongoing growth in container shipping has increased the throughput of containers at terminals and put enormous pressure on both ports and terminal operators to increase productivity in order to 1 be able to handle the significant number of containers in a fast yet efficient way.…”

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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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Scheduling Seaside Resources at Container Ports

Meisel

2011

Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science

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This article provides an overview of operational planning and scheduling problems at seaport container terminals. It considers problems that deal with the seaside resources of a terminal, namely the berth space and the quay cranes, in detail. The corresponding problems of berth allocation, crane assignment, and crane scheduling are investigated in detail by providing comprehensive literature surveys and examples of mathematical models that are found in the recent literature. Finally, issues of further research are outlined.

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Advanced methods for container stacking

Cited by 181 publications

References 12 publications

Evaluating impact of truck announcements on container stacking efficiency

Evaluating impact of truck announcements on container stacking efficiency

A new approach to the Container Positioning Problem

Scheduling Seaside Resources at Container Ports

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