Planning and optimising manpower management in a transshipment container terminal

Massimo Di Francesco, Antonio Manca, Simone Zanda and Paola Zuddas

European Journal of Industrial Engineering, 2016, vol. 10, issue 6, 777-793

Abstract: Manpower management is a complex problem for transshipment container terminals, because different requirements must be taken into account in the short-term plan to properly assign workers to shifts, tasks and operations, while accounting for some decisions already made in the long-term plan. An optimisation model is formulated to discuss the decision-making ability of a real terminal in dealing with this problem. The experimentation shows that its current policy on the short-term plan is effective, but some improvements can be obtained if unnecessary restrictions were removed from the long-term plan and some changes are accepted in the current modus operandi of the terminal. [Received 16 February 2015; Revised 4 January 2016; Accepted 13 June 2016]

Keywords: manpower planning; human resource management; HRM; transshipment container terminals; TCTs; maritime logistics; optimisation; decision making; manpower management. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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