Port terminals play a critical role in the context of world trade since they are the main nodes
responsible for connecting sea and land transportation. There are several optimization …

Life and property losses along environmental pollution caused by accidents in the
transportation of hazardous goods have raised serious concerns over the efficient handling …

Ship berthing is an intricate operation with a high accident rate, the consequence severity of
which is further augmented by the presence of hazardous cargo. An understanding of the …

Berth allocation problems are amongst the most important problems occurring in port
terminals, and they are greatly affected by several unpredictable events. As a result, the …

To reduce the impact of equipment failure, vessel arrival time delay and other unexpected
factors, container terminal managers need to develop a more robust berth scheduling plan …

As industrialization continues, the world faces issues related to increased energy
consumption and massive carbon emissions. Given the growing complexity of maritime …

Due to both the rapid growth of world and the expansion of the flow of container shipment, a
maritime container terminal plays a vital role in global coverage of supply chain. In this …

Solving the berth allocation problem (BAP) in ports is not trivial where the berth resources
are limited and various sizes of vessels arrive with dramatically dissimilar loads. Especially …

Ship–infrastructure cooperation, ie, infrastructure scheduling, is significant for optimizing the
utilization of spatial-temporal resources of infrastructures and improving the efficiency and …

This work introduces a fuzzy optimization model, which solves in an integrated way the berth
allocation problem (BAP) and the quay crane allocation problem (QCAP). The problem is …