Sea port container terminals play an important role in the national and regional economy. The integrated scheduling of handling equipment has been recently investigated in literature to improve the performance of the container terminals. In this paper, an integrated scheduling of quay cranes and automated guided vehicles is formulated as a mixed integer linear programming model. This model mini...

Due to globalization and the growth of international trade, many container terminals are trying to improve performance in order to keep up with demand. One technology that has been proposed is the use of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) in the handling of containers within terminals. Recently, a new generation of AGVs has been developed which makes use of cassettes that can be detached from the...

Faster turnaround time of the vessels in berths has direct impact on the improvement of terminals productivity. The need for an intelligent system that dynamically adapts to the changing environment is apparent, as there is limited number of berths and resources available in container terminals for delivering services to vessels. BDI (Beliefs, Desires and Intentions) agents are being proposed i...

The container, a standard size metal box designed to be moved with common handling equipment into which cargo is packed for shipment aboard in specifically configured oceangoing vessels, has evolved into the key physical and logistical support of international trade and globalization. Although available in several sizes, all containers adhere to a single standard, which accelerated containeriza...

In this paper an average number of re-handlings analysis is proposed to solve the problem of finding bays configuration in small container terminal in Gliwice, Poland. Rehandlings in this terminal can be performed only by reachstackers. The goal of the heuristic is to plan the reachstacter moves in the terminal, assuming that the target containers are reached and the number of re-handings is mi...

There is an error in affiliation 1 for author Sharron Bransburg-Zabary. Affilation 1 should be: Nutrits LTD, Tel-Aviv 7239, Israel. The email address listed for the corresponding author, Dr. Sharron Bransburg-Zabary, is incorrect. The correct email address is: [email protected]. The company “Nutrits LTD” is incorrectly referred to as “nanobébé LTD” in the Funding section. The correct fun...