Port terminals play a critical role in the context of world trade since they are the main nodes
responsible for connecting sea and land transportation. There are several optimization …

Maritime industry is the artery of the global economy since it carries around 90% of the
volume of global trade. However, the fierce environmental problems associated with human …

Improving container ports' operational efficiency to reduce the delays at ports concerns
global port operators significantly. Optimizing the tactical level allocation of quay side and …

The integrated berth allocation and quay crane assignment problem is an important issue for
the operations management in container terminals. This issue primarily considers the …

Marine container terminals play a significant role for international trade networks and global
market. To cope with the rapid and steady growth of the seaborne trade market, marine …

Berth allocation problems are amongst the most important problems occurring in port
terminals, and they are greatly affected by several unpredictable events. As a result, the …

The limited availability of berths and channels is generally the bottleneck restricting the
capacity of a seaport and thus resulting in traffic congestion. Optimizing the operations of the …

This paper considers vessel scheduling with pilotage and tugging constraints in berthing
operations with channel restrictions at seaports. To our knowledge, pilotage and tugging …

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering stations are areas for bunkering LNG-powered ships
via a flexible hose from either a shoreside facility, shore-based/pontoon tank, or an LNG …

To reduce the impact of equipment failure, vessel arrival time delay and other unexpected
factors, container terminal managers need to develop a more robust berth scheduling plan …