This paper elaborates the different operations research methods used to solve container terminal operational decisions including terminal design, berth allocation, quay crane assignment, quay crane scheduling, container storage space allocation, container location assignment, retrieval, and premarshalling, as well as resource scheduling and terminal logistics in general. Solution methods includ...

Nowadays competition between port container terminals, especially between geographically close ones, is rapidly increasing. How to improve the competitiveness of port container terminals is, therefore, an immediate challenge, with which port operators are confronted. In terms of port competitiveness, the makespan of a container vessel, which is the latest completion time among all handling task...

Most of the operational problems in container terminals are strongly interconnected. In this paper, we study the integrated berth allocation and quay crane assignment problem in seaport container terminals. We will extend the current stateof-the-art by proposing novel set partitioning models. To improve the performance of the set partitioning formulations, a number of variable reduction techniq...

Due to the dramatic increase in the world’s container traffic, the efficient management of operations in seaport container terminals has become a crucial issue. In this work, we focus on the integrated planning of the following problems faced at container terminals: berth allocation, quay crane assignment (number), and quay crane assignment (specific). First, we formulate a new binary integer l...

Ports are one of transportation’s logistic components crucial to supporting international trade and economic growth. Increasing at an average annual rate of 16%, the Port of Savannah has been America’s fastest-growing port since 2001. Because of this rapid growth, there is a need to develop a cost-effective means to explore and evaluate new productivity improvement alternatives (e.g. a facility...