International sea-freight container transportation has grown dramatically over the last years and container terminals represent nowadays a key actor in the global shipping network. Terminal managers have to face with an increasing competitiveness among terminals, which require more and more efficiency in container operations both along the quayside and within the yard: the objective is usually ...

In recent years, the number of shipping containers grows rapidly, and in many container yard terminals, increasing throughput of material handling operation becomes important issue as well as decreasing the turnaround times of vessels. Material handling operations for loading containers into a vessel is highly complex, and the complexity grows at an exponential rate according to the growth of t...

The growths of containerization and transporting goods in containers have created many problems for ports. In this paper, we systematically survey a literature over problems in container terminals. The operations that take place in container terminals are described and then the problems are classified into five scheduling decisions. For each of the decisions, on overview of the literature is pr...

In the last decade, integrated logistics has become an important challenge in the development of wireless communication, identification and sensing technology, due to the growing complexity of logistics processes and the increasing demand for adapting systems to new requirements. The advancement of wireless technology provides a wide range of options for the maritime container terminals. Electr...

Abstract In maritime container terminals, yards have a primary role in permitting the efficient management of import and export flows. this work, mixed 0/1 linear programming model heuristic approach are proposed for defining storage rules order to minimize space used yard. The minimization land is pursued by allocate containers into bay-locations yard, such way as number empty slots within the...

There is a global trend of automation container terminals. However, there lack literature to guide projects for brownfield Therefore, the experiences and lessons learnt from historical terminals are valuable source information future projects. This paper describes terminal carried out in recent years. For each project, drivers, challenges, benefits, drawbacks were gathered using questionnaire d...