Most container terminals are still using a bar code system for gate passage of trucks and containers, and also using paper documents (slip) for the delivery of the information on storage location of container in a yard. For this reason, most trucks have to stop at the gate of the container terminals in order to perform several basic jobs. To enhance the productivity of gate management, this stu...

The paper presents a container stacking model that simulates, solves and optimizes the container stacking activity within a fluvial or maritime port. This activity constitutes a real world problem that is omnipresent in logistic and transportation domain. Given container arrivals in a container port terminal, the objective is to assign a slot to each one in a storage area at least cost with res...

Cost-management systems play a significant role in the operations management of container terminal companies; however, complex loading and discharging operations, traditional Activity-Based Costing (ABC) are costly difficult to be built maintained. A modified Time-Driven ABC method, considering all procedures required obtain final product estimating resource usage accordingly, has emerged respo...

Container terminals offer transfer facilities to move containers from vessels to trucks, trains and barges and vice versa. Within the terminal the container yard serves as a temporary buffer where incoming containers are piled up in stacks. Only the topmost container of each stack can be accessed. If another container has to be retrieved, containers stored above it must be relocated first. Cont...

This paper introduces and investigates the Online Container Relocation Problem, where containers have to be retrieved from a bay in a container terminal so as to minimize the number of relocations. Unlike the offline version of the problem, the order of container retrievals is revealed one at a time in an online fashion. We analyze the so-called leveling heuristic using the perspective of worst...

Throughput capacity is the production capacity of port enterprise under constant exotic environment, and plays a significant role in production control. According to the analysis on influencing factors of throughput capacity and characters of operation system, this paper proposes a simulation model of container terminal operation system based on port service level. By changing input parameters,...

The berth scheduling problem deals with the assignment of vessels to berth space in a container terminal. Defining berth schedules in container terminal operations translates in meeting different objectives that are often noncommensurable and gaining an improvement on one objective often causes degrading performance on the others. In this paper the discrete space and dynamic arrival berth sched...

A major feature of intermodal transportation systems is the presence of large container terminals, where loading and unloading of containers are split in different tasks that depend on carrier categories, cargo types and service requirements. The efficiency of a terminal is influenced by the ability to manage the various transfer tasks done by means of quay cranes, transfer cranes, trucks and s...

This paper presents a component-based software architecture that enables a container terminal to optimize their energy demand and the flexibility of this demand. This flexibility is gained from using energy-intensive battery-powered Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) for container transport within the terminal. While Demand Response strategies are known and already applied in some industrial bran...