A comprehensive review of quay crane scheduling, yard operations and integrations thereof in container terminals

D Kizilay, DT Eliiyi - Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 2021 - Springer
Over the past decades, container transportation has achieved considerable growth, and
maritime trade now constitutes 80% of the global trade. The vessel sizes increased in …

[HTML][HTML] The synergistic effect of operational research and big data analytics in greening container terminal operations: A review and future directions

R Raeesi, N Sahebjamnia, SA Mansouri - European Journal of Operational …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Container Terminals (CTs) are continuously presented with highly interrelated,
complex, and uncertain planning tasks. The ever-increasing intensity of operations at CTs in …

Deep learning assisted heuristic tree search for the container pre-marshalling problem

A Hottung, S Tanaka, K Tierney - Computers & Operations Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The container pre-marshalling problem (CPMP) is concerned with the re-ordering of
containers in container terminals during off-peak times so that containers can be quickly …

Multi-objective optimization of the 3D container stowage planning problem in a barge convoy system

A El Yaagoubi, M Charhbili, J Boukachour… - Computers & Operations …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mainly motivated by the massification of flows in inland shipping, where several barges can
be assembled in convoys to transport a large number of containers to and from the …

[HTML][HTML] A constraint programming approach for the premarshalling problem

C Jiménez-Piqueras, R Ruiz, C Parreño-Torres… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The enormous amount of containers handled at ports hampers the efficiency of terminal
operations. The optimization of crane movements is crucial for speeding up the loading and …

Integer programming models for the pre-marshalling problem

C Parreño-Torres, R Alvarez-Valdes, R Ruiz - European Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The performance of shipping companies greatly depends on reduced berthing times. The
trend towards bigger ships and shorter berthing times places severe stress on container …

A branch and bound approach for large pre-marshalling problems

S Tanaka, K Tierney, C Parreño-Torres… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The container pre-marshalling problem involves the sorting of containers in stacks so that
there are no blocking containers and retrieval is carried out without additional movements …

An exact algorithm for the unrestricted container relocation problem with new lower bounds and dominance rules

B Jin, S Tanaka - European Journal of Operational Research, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Stacking outbound barge containers in an automated deep-sea terminal

A Gharehgozli, N Zaerpour - European Journal of Operational Research, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we study the stacking problem of outbound containers in a deep-sea container
terminal. In such a terminal, outbound containers-to be transported by barge to the …

A new effective unified model for solving the pre-marshalling and block relocation problems

MM da Silva, S Toulouse, RW Calvo - European Journal of Operational …, 2018 - Elsevier
Container terminals are exchange hubs that interconnect many transportation modes and
facilitate the flow of containers. Among other elements, terminals include a yard which …