Logistics is a complex industry where many different types of companies collaborate in order to transport containers to the last point. One of the most important problem in logistics domain is observation and monitoring of container life cycle where each step of the container transportation may be performed by different company. Thus, observing and monitoring of the container’s life cycle in re...

This study introduces the concept of microgames to support situated learning in order to foster situational awareness (SA) of planners in seaport container terminals. In today’s complex working environments, it is often difficult to develop the required level of understanding of a given situation, described as situational awareness. A container terminal represents an important, complex node in ...

At container terminals, containers are transshipped from one mode of transportation to another. Within a terminal different types of material handling equipment are used to transship containers from ships to barges, trucks and trains and vice versa. Over the past decades, ships have strongly increased in size, up to 8000 TEU (Twenty feet equivalent unit container). In order to use these big shi...

The scale of the global chemical industry is enormous: in 2003, the total value of global production exceeded US$1.7 trillion. International logistics is especially crucial to the high-value chemicals industry, since raw materials sources, production facilities, and consumer markets are distributed globally. Fluctuating demand, imbalanced trade flows, and expensive transportation equipment nece...

Maritime shipping containers are important to a number of different industries as they facilitate the reduction of transportation costs. To address the needs of shippers, empty containers need to be repositioned globally between seaports. Since the cost of empty container repositioning (ECR) constitutes a significant element of the total cost of running a global container fleet operation, the p...

Due to the recent increase in global trade of finished consumer goods the worldwide container traffic has grown dramatically. As a result, new terminals opened and existing terminals face a much higher container turnover than before. In order to meet these challenges, one of the biggest container terminals in Turkey seeks to reconsider its terminal operations and to improve its overall logistic...

Traditionally it’s impossible to monitor the freight’s status inside a container which is made of steel and makes data transmission by radio impossible, let alone the wired communication solutions. As container transportation is the prevailing method for international cargos, a feasible way to transmit status of the monitored cargo out of the stacked containers is very important, especially for...

A significant and growing volume of global trade travels on container ships, and each year larger ships are introduced. For this reason, the Container Stowage Problem, a fundamental problem in marine cargo transportation involving the optimal assignment of shipping containers of various types to specific storage locations in container ship at each port in order to maximize loading and unloading...

due to the considerable growth in the worldwide container transportation, optimization of container terminal operations is becoming highly needed to rationalize the use of logistics resources. for this reason, we focus our study on the quay crane scheduling problem (qcsp), which is a core task of managing maritime container terminals. from this planning problem arise two decisions to be made: t...