The area of maritime transportation optimization has recently begun to achieve increasing
success at solving large scale models, and industry is steadily adopting operations research …

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

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 …

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 container pre-marshalling problem (CPMP) is performed at container terminals around
the world to re-order containers so that they can be more efficiently transferred through the …

In this paper, we introduce, model and solve the pickup and delivery problem with time
windows, multiple stacks, and handling operations (PDPTWMS-H). In the PDPTWMS-H, a …

Stowage planning is an NP-hard combinatorial problem concerned with loading a container
vessel in a given port, such that a number of constraints regarding the physical layout of the …

Owing to the significant increase in the volume of world trade, mega-container vessels are
being used to meet transportation demands. As the size of the vessels increases, the …

Reconfiguring two shortest paths in a graph means modifying one shortest path to the other
by changing one vertex at a time, so that all the intermediate paths are also shortest paths …

The stowage planning problem has recently gained the attention of a number of academic
researchers. Unfortunately, many of the published works are either based on oversimplified …