An important objective of all schedules in a port is to minimize turnaround time of vessels. An operation schedule for Quay Cranes (QCs) can significantly affect the turnaround time of a vessel. Recently dual cycling techniques have already been used for reducing the number of operation cycles of QCs in some advanced container terminals. This study attempts to minimize the number of operation c...

CPU utilization, throughput, turnaround time, waiting time, and response time are the factor to influence system performance. Every system uses different scheduling algorithms to achieve his goal. In the grid computing, resources usages are important to get good performance . When jobs are not uniformly distributed in all grid nodes, job scheduling is more important . In order to achieve perfor...

This paper is concerned with yard management in transshipment hubs, where a consignment strategy is often used to reduce reshuffling and vessel turnaround time. This strategy groups unloaded containers according to their destination vessels. In this strategy, yard template determines the assignment of the spaces (subblocks) in the yard to the vessels. This paper studies how to make a robust yar...

This research investigates the determinants of ship turnaround times at about 2,300 container ports between 1977 and 2016, based on nearly 3 million daily vessel movements. It adopts a multilevel approach combining territorial network indicators to characterize ports, proposes new methodology calculating shipping delays. Main results reveal that port connectivity, Gross Domestic Product per cap...

OBJECTIVES To compare the microbiological efficacy, turnaround time, cost, convenience, and patient and user tolerance of Tristel Trio Wipes, PeraSafe solution and Cidex OPA solution for the high-level disinfection of flexible nasendoscopes. METHODS Flexible nasendoscopes were used in routine clinical encounters. They were then disinfected with one of the three disinfectant methods. Surveilla...