Abstract Container Terminals (CTs) are continuously presented with highly interrelated,
complex, and uncertain planning tasks. The ever-increasing intensity of operations at CTs in …

Hybrid flowshop scheduling problem (HFSP) is a mixture of two classical scheduling
problems as parallel machine scheduling (PMS) and flowshop scheduling (FS). In the HFSP …

Although a large amount of intelligent handling equipment has been widely used in
automated container terminals, few studies have explored the coordination optimization …

Meeting the individual needs of customers will increase the competitiveness of container
terminals. This paper optimizes the configuration and scheduling of double 40 ft dual-trolley …

Terminal layout design is an important strategic decision to obtain efficient automated
container terminals. Recently, several types of layout design are being implemented to …

As a key development direction of future ports, automated container terminals will play a
crucial part in the development of multimodal transportation. Based on the newly constructed …

In marine container terminals, truck dispatching optimization is often considered as the
primary focus as it provides crucial synergy between the sea-side operations and yard-side …

With the electrification of port equipment, container terminals have become electricity-
intensive consumers. The time-of-use (TOU) pricing policy has prompted container terminals …

Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the manufacturing sector has been
experiencing unprecedented issues, including severe fluctuation in demand, restrictions on …

In the real-world production environment, the employee skills affect production efficiency.
Especially, the learning and forgetting effects largely influence the processing time. This …