Planning and Scheduling for Maritime Container Yards Supporting and Facilitating the Global Supply Network /

• Main Authors: Li, Wenkai (Author), Wu, Yong (Author), Goh, Mark (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Transportation.; Production management.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Building construction.; Offshore Engineering.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Operations Management.

Maximizing reader insights into the challenges facing maritime supply chains and container port logistics service providers in Asia, this book highlights their innovative responses to these challenges through real-world case studies. With a focus on mathematical modeling, simulation and heuristics a...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Maritime Terminal Operational Problems
• Discrete Time Model and Algorithms for Container Yard Crane Scheduling
• A Continuous Time Model for Multiple Yard Crane Scheduling with Last Minute Job Arrivals
• Heuristic Approach
• Validation via Simulation.