Space allocating strategies for improving import yard performance at marine terminals

Using battery-electric AGVs in container terminals — Assessing the potential and optimizing the economic viability

“…We appear to be the first to assess the impacts of BAGVs used with a battery-swapping station on a transportation system's performance in terms of economics. This is important as the increasing pressure of competition between container terminals and environmental regulations on noise and air pollution poses new and intricate problems for terminal-operating companies (Rijsenbrij & Wieschemann, 2011;Saurí & Martín, 2011). Second, we adapted research methodologies from the fields of operations research and informatics to improve the profitability of B-AGVs.…”

Container Terminal Operation: Current Trends and Future Challenges

“…For maintaining vessel stability, heavy containers are usually placed in low tiers of the holds, must therefore be retrieved earlier than light containers from the yard, and hence must be stacked in higher tiers than light containers so that relocation can be avoided during their retrieval. For inbound containers, more frequent relocations are expected because the retrieval requests are issued in a random order by randomly arriving road trucks (Sauri and Martin 2011). Storage charge may be used to control the inventory level of inbound containers (Lee and Yu 2012).…”

Sea Container Terminals: New Technologies, OR Models, and Emerging Research Areas

“…The validity of the recursive function of the DP model is proven by Zhang et al (2010). Saurì and Martìn (2011) propose three new strategies to stack import containers. They also develop a model to compute the expected number of reshuffles based on the container arrival times.…”