Abstract Container Terminals (CTs) are continuously presented with highly interrelated,
complex, and uncertain planning tasks. The ever-increasing intensity of operations at CTs in …

In recent years, the demand for dry bulk cargo trade has increased, and the scheduling
pressure on bulk cargo ports is increasing daily. The most effective and cost-effective way to …

Stowage planning is crucial to the efficiency of loading containers onto vessels, which can
affect the competitiveness of ports. In this paper, we study the stowage problem and …

In many container terminals, containers are piled vertically and horizontally in the terminal
yard, limited mainly by the dimensions of the yard crane. Import and export containers are …

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

The container relocation problem, also known as the block (s) relocation problem, is one of
the most studied optimization problems in container terminals. The problem aims at …

Problems of stacking items or goods occur in a plenty of applications, such as container
terminals, warehouses, and steel plants. A lot of research has been done in this area in …

The container relocation problem (CRP) is an NP-hard combinatorial optimisation problem
that arises in yard management. The problem is concerned with loading all containers from …

The pre-marshalling problem has been extensively studied in recent years with the aim of
minimizing the number of movements needed to rearrange a bay of containers. Time is a …

This paper proposes a family of Markov models to analytically characterize the distribution of
the number of relocations per retrieval in a container depot. We focus on empty container …