Inbound and outbound containers are temporarily stored in the storage yard at container
terminals. A combination of container demand increase and storage yard capacity scarcity …

Owing to a rapid growth in world trade and a large increase in the flow of containerized
goods, sea container terminals play a vital role in globe-spanning supply chains. Container …

Container terminals play an important role in the transportation of containerized goods in
global supply chains. The number of containers handled in container terminals has …

Sustainable development of container terminals is based on energy efficiency and reduction
in CO2 emissions. This study estimated the energy consumption and CO2 emissions in …

This paper introduces a novel optimization problem resulting from the combination of two
major existing problems arising at storage yards in container terminals. The Yard Crane …

Purpose Since the first automated container terminal (ACT) was introduced at Europe
Container Terminals Delta Terminal in Port Rotterdam back in the year 1992, a lot of …

This paper studies an operational problem arising at a container terminal, consisting of
scheduling a yard crane to carry out a set of container storage and retrieval requests in a …

The main activities of container terminals are to load outbound containers on to vessels,
discharge inbound containers from vessels, and store those containers in the yard before …

Freight transportation is an important part of the global supply chain. As distances shipped
grow and supply chains become more complex and fragile, operations research (OR) can …

The yard layout significantly influences the performance of automated container terminals
(ACTs), especially those employing a perpendicular stack configuration, where the yard …