Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1024035 | Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review | 2009 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
This study addresses the storage arrangement of transshipment containers on a container yard, in order to carry out efficiently the ship handling operations at a terminal where mega-containerships call. An optimization model is specified to investigate the flow of containers from the mega-containership to feeder ships using intermediate storage at the yard. A heuristic based on the lagrangian relaxation is formulated. The quality of the heuristic approach is tested in a number of experiments. In the experiments, various situations are analyzed with respect to mega-containership arrival rates, some strategies for stack arrangements and terminal layouts.
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Authors
Etsuko Nishimura, Akio Imai, Gerrit K. Janssens, Stratos Papadimitriou,