Container Terminals: Scheduling Decisions, their Formulation and Solutions

Abstract: The growths of containerization and transporting goods in containers have created many problems for ports. In this paper, we systematically survey a literature over problems in container terminals. The operations that take place in container terminals are described and then the problems are classified into five scheduling decisions. For each of the decisions, on overview of the literature is presented. After that, each of the decisions is formulated as Constraint Satisfaction and Optimisation Problems (CSOPs). The literature also includes solutions, implementation and performance. The solutions are classified and summarized. Two frameworks for the implementation are suggested. To confirm the results and to measure the terminalís efficiency in each of the decisions, several indices are suggested.

Keywords: Container Terminals, Scheduling, Constraint Satisfaction Problem, Mathematical Formulation, Optimisation.

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