This paper studies a yard storage allocation problem in a transshipment hub where there is a great number of loading and unloading activities. The primary challenge is to efficiently shift containers between the vessels and the storage area so that reshuffling and traffic congestion is minimized. In particular, to reduce reshuffling, a consignment strategy is used. This strategy groups unloaded…
tThis paper deals with designing and developing a Decision Support System (DSS) that will be able tomanage the flow of goods and the business transactions between a port and a dry port. An integrated DSSarchitecture is proposed and specified and the main components are designed on the basis of simulationand optimization modules. In order to show the use and implementation of the DSS, this work …
The yard truck scheduling and the storage allocation are two important decision problems affecting the efficiency of container terminal operations. This paper proposes a novel approach that integrates these two problems into a whole. The objective is to minimize the weighted sum of total delay of requests and the total travel time of yard trucks. Due to the intractability of the proposed proble…