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 …

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

The block relocation problem, which is also known as the container relocation problem, is an
optimization problem to find an optimal sequence of operations for retrieving blocks …

With the continuous development of seaports, problems related to the storage of containers
in terminals have emerged. Such problems, referred to in the scientific literature as …

This paper addresses the container pre-marshalling problem (CPMP) which rearranges
containers inside a storage bay to a desired layout. By far, target-driven algorithms have …

In this paper, we consider the premarshalling problem, where items in a storage area have
to be sorted for convenient retrieval. A new model for uncertainty is introduced, where the …

This work studies rearrangement problems involving the sorting of robots or objects in stack-
like containers, which can be accessed only from one side. Two scenarios are considered …

In this paper, the authors study the Container Stacking Problem (CSP) which is one of the
most important problems in marine terminal. An optimization model is developed in order to …

There are n ≥ 2 n≥ 2 stacks, each filled with d items, and one empty stack. Every stack has
capacity d> 0 d> 0. A robot arm, in one stack operation (step), may pop one item from the top …

Steel plate yard in shipbuilding, followed by the Separated-Strategy, is divided into
Temporary-Area, Storage-Area, and Delivery-Area. When a target plate is not at the top of …