Global planning in a multi-terminal and multi-modal maritime container port

Xavier Schepler, Stefan Balev, Sophie Michel and Éric Sanlaville

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2017, vol. 100, issue C, 38-62

Abstract: This paper introduces an optimization model of a multi-terminal, multi-modal maritime container port, such as the ones in the European northern range. The decisions concern the scheduling of ships, trains and trucks on terminals, while limiting inter-terminal transport of containers and minimizing weighted turnaround time. Heuristics based on the decomposition of the resulting mixed-integer program are proposed and tested on realistic generated instances with up to four terminals. The efficiency of the restrict-and-fix heuristic allows to investigate the impact of a global management on port’s performance: an average improvement of 5% was observed.

Keywords: Maritime container port management; Multi-terminal optimization; Mixed-integer programming; Structural decomposition; Mixed-integer programming based heuristic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2016.12.002

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