Ports are widely recognised as crucial nodes in international trade and transport. However, for various reasons, capacity does not always match demand: sometimes there is overcapacity, whereas in other cases, demand exceeds capacity and there is a shortage of the latter. This chapter therefore looks at where port congestion occurs, both globally and in the port-calling chain; it analyses actual…
The Tactical Berth Allocation Problem (TBAP) aims to allocate incoming ships to berthing positions andassign quay crane profiles to them (i.e. number of quay cranes per time step). The goals of the TBAPare both the minimization of the housekeeping costs derived from the transshipment container flowsbetween ships, and the maximization of the total value of the quay crane profiles assigned to the…
This paper provides an integrated solution for two common processes in a container seaport: namely, the Berth Allocation Process (BAP) and the Crane Scheduling Process (QCSP). These are formulated through a Bi-Level Programming (BLP) approach, which is used to characterize the highly interrelated relationships between the two processes and simultaneously, identify an integrated solution for bot…
The main objective of this paper is ‘to assess the conditions, including policy support, under which innovative conceptshave a highchance ofgetting adoptedandbeingsuccessful’.Theworkwill start fromthe state-of-theart with the following goals targeted. Firstly, to identify the paths that newinnovative concepts usually follow, what key determinants are, which actors are involved, and what pol…
In this work we describe some decisional problems arising in the management of maritime container ports, together with optimisation models and algorithms suitably designed for their solution. We refer to the Gioia Tauro container terminal which recently has reached a high stage of growth, becoming one of the most important transhipment ports in the Mediterranean Sea. In particular, we focus on …
Berth planning plays an important role in improving the efficiency of a container terminal. This study focuses on the berth template problem (BTP), which determines the berthing windows of the calling ships within a planning horizon (e.g. a week) in a cyclical way. As a mid-term tactical decision problem, BTP provides the decision support for a terminal operator to negotiate the contracts with …
Most of the operational problems in container terminals are strongly interconnected. In this paper, we study the integrated Berth Allocation and Quay Crane Assignment Problem in seaport container terminals. We will extend the current state-of-the-art by proposing novel set partitioning models. To improve the performance of the set partitioning formulations, a number of variable reduction techni…
This paper considers the Dynamic Berth Allocation Problem, in which vessels are assigned to discrete positions in berths. This problem, whose goal is to minimize the total time the vessels stay at the port, constitutes one of the most important processes at any containers terminal. We propose a hybrid metaheuristic that combines Tabu Search with Path Relinking, T2SnþPR. The results reached by …
This paper studies two tactical level decision problems arising in transshipment hubs: berth template planning that is concerned with allocating berths and quay cranes to arriving vessels, and yard template planning that is concerned with assigning yard storage locations to vessels. These two tactical level decisions interact with each other. A mixed-integer programming model is proposed to int…
Economic growth in a region indicated by increasing the growth of population and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). These two factors are used in determining variable takes into account forecasting container throughput in Palembang, South Sumatra. Container Terminal which is the parallel activities of the Berth and the Yard needs adequate capacity as benchmark capability in the meet of demand in the…
Within the development  of seaport transportation  system, note that the ability of a port  plays  an  important  role as  a part  of integrated  global  supply  chain.  As  an indivisible  share of a port, container terminal has a potential strategic value in the global liner shipping networks as well as a major aspect of the competitiveness of the The  main  objective Â…