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A six sigma framework for marine container terminals
This research uses an optimisation model, based on the Six Sigma methodology, which assists marine container terminal operators to minimize trucks’ congestions, as a defect in the global containerisation and smoothing the gate activity to reduce trucks’ turn-around times. The main purpose of this paper is implementing the Six Sigma in the landside of marine container terminals to reduce the average number of trucks in queues and average trucks’ waiting times in both entrance and exit gates.