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 …

In order to increase the order picking efficiency, e-commerce retailers have started to
implement order picking systems where mobile robots carry inventory pods to pick stations …

This paper studies the effect of a handshake area on the performance of twin automated
stacking cranes (ASCs) operating on top of a stack with transfer zones at both seaside and …

Cargo storage is one of the key aspects of the maritime transportation. As the prior site
planning, container stacking has a critical influence on the operation efficiency of the storage …

In recent years the maritime freight transport has rapidly increased, causing congestion in
many port areas. In some cases, in order to improve the capacity and the reliability of the …

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 …

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 …

Steel plate is one of the most valuable steel products which is highly customized in
specification according to the demands of users. In this case, the outbound scheduling of …

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 …

In this paper, we investigate the stacking problem of outbound containers. It focuses on
developing an optimal stacking strategy to allocate the arriving containers in a preassigned …