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IIE Transactions Volume 36, 2004 - Issue 4
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Loading and unloading operations in container terminals

CHUNG-LUN LI Department of Logistics, Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China E-mail: [email protected]
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GEORGE L. VAIRAKTARAKIS Department of Operations, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA E-mail: xv5@weatherhea
Pages 287-297 | Received 01 Jul 2001, Accepted 01 Jul 2003, Published online: 17 Aug 2010
 
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Abstract

We consider the problem of optimizing the time for loading and unloading containers to and from a ship at a container terminal, where containers are required to be transported by trucks between the ship and their designated locations in the container yard. An optimal algorithm and some efficient heuristics are developed to solve the problem with a single quay crane. The effectiveness of the heuristics is studied both analytically and computationally.

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