“…Many former research studies have addressed terminal problems, including berth template planning (Imai et al , 2014; Moorthy and Teo, 2006), yard template generation (Zhen, 2014; He and Tan, 2018; Tan et al , 2017) at the strategic level and berth allocation (Arango et al , 2011; Lee and Wang, 2010), crane scheduling (Kim and Park, 2004; He et al , 2018), yard space allocation (Jin et al , 2016; Chen and Yahalom, 2013; Chen et al , 2017) at the operational level. For a general overview, review works are given by Vis and Koster (2003), Steenken et al (2004) and Stahlbock and Voß (2008).…”