Group Storage Methods at Container Port Terminals

Abstract

Abstract Assignment of storage locations to export containers is an important issue to improve the efficiency of loading operation in port container terminals. To expedite the loading operation, containers bound for a ship should be located close together. To put together containers for a ship, yard spaces should be allocated in advance for each arriving ship. In this paper, we discuss how to allocate yard spaces which are released by loading containers to a ship. It is shown that the problem may be formulated as a mixed integer problem. A practical example is solved to illustrate the algorithm in this paper.