In the last four decades the container as an essential part of a unit-load-concept has
achieved undoubted importance in international sea freight transportation. With ever …

Problems of loading, unloading and premarshalling of stacks as well as combinations
thereof appear in several practical applications, eg container terminals, container ship …

As the population in cities continues to increase, large-city problems, including traffic
congestion and environmental pollution, have become increasingly serious. The …

The efficiency of a maritime container terminal primarily depends on the smooth and orderly
process of handling containers, especially during the ship's loading process. The stowage …

Operations research techniques have helped optimize container terminal operations over
the past decades and have been a regular feature of maritime logistics and maritime supply …

We consider the stowage planning problem of a container ship, where the ship visits a
series of ports sequentially and containers can only be accessed from the top of the stacks …

Container vessel stowage planning is a hard combinatorial optimization problem with both
high economic and environmental impact. We have developed an approach that often is …

Container shipping drives the global economy and is an eco-friendly mode of transportation.
A key objective is to maximize the utilization of vessels, which is challenging due to the NP …

The purpose of this study is to propose an exact algorithm for the unrestricted block
relocation problem with distinct priorities. In this problem, a storage area is considered …

This work presents a generalization of the Slot Planning Problem which raises when the
liner shipping industry needs to plan the placement of containers within a vessel (stowage …