COMPARISON OF HANDLING EQUIPMENT TYPE BY OPTIMIZING CONTAINER ARRANGEMENT

An Integrated Scheduling Problem of Container Handling Equipment in the Loading Operation at Automated Container Terminals

In automated container terminals, containers are transported between ships and storage yard by differen types of vehicles, for example, guided vehicle (AGV, yard crane (YC) and quay crane (QC). To improve the productivity of the automated container terminals, it is important to harmoniously synchronize operations of different types of container handling equipment. This paper examines the schedu...

Integrated Scheduling of Different Types of Handling Equipment at Automated Container Terminals

Effective control and operation of handling equipment in port container terminals are crucial in enhancing the overall efficiency and performance of container handling in import, export and transshipment. Nowadays, more and more container terminals are deploying automated handling equipment to improve the overall productivity. As the equipment is often unmanned and automatically controlled, it ...

A Fuzzy Genetic Algorithm for Scheduling of Handling / Storage Equipment in Automated Container Terminals

Integrated scheduling of handling/storage equipment in container terminals is an NP-hard problem which has been studied during past two decades consciously. Genetic algorithms (GAs) have been applied for this optimization problem in many researches. However, the GA is vulnerable to trap in a local optima (results in premature convergence). In this paper a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) is designe...

Optimizing Container Terminal Operations

Automated Container-Handling System for Container Production Nurseries

Production of nursery crops in the US is accomplished in containerand field-growing conditions, with propagation and seedling-rearing carried out in greenhouses. Container-grown crops represent 60% of the US market and represent a highly labor-intensive and thus costly segment of ornamental crop production. The USDA, NASA and the ANLA have collaborated to develop an automated in-field container...