Berth allocation planning

Berth Allocation Planning Optimization in Container Terminals... 

In the rest of this paper, we outline an approach to address the issues associated with the static and dynamic berth allocation planning problem. Our contributions can be summarized as follows ... 

We extend the static berth allocation model to address the case where certain regions in the time-space network cannot be used to pack arriving vessels. These forbidden regions correspond to instances where certain vessels have already been moored and will leave the terminal some time later. In this case, the space allocated to these vessels cannot be used to moor other arriving vessels. The ability to address these side constraints allows our model to be embedded in a rolling horizon berth allocation planning model. 

There is by now a huge literature on the applications of operations research in container operations (cf Steenken et al. (2004)). To the best of our knowledge, while there are sporadic papers that address the static berth allocation planning problem, none of the papers in the literature addresses specifieally the issue of throughput loss in the dynamic berth planning... 

In the dynamic berth allocation planning model, we have the additional challenge of rolling the plan forward every time we move forward one period. This raises an important question How do we handle the situation when certain vessels are already moored in the terminal Note that the space allocated to these vessels caimot be used to moor other vessels. 

Computational Results Static Berth Allocation Planning Model... 

Simulation Results Rolling Horizon Berth Allocation Planning... 

The above results indicate that the proposed dynamic berth allocation planning model performs extremely well in this environment. 

Dai et al. (Berth Allocation Planning Optimization in Container Terminal) examined the issue of supply chain efficiency in the container terminal environment. In this chapter, they focused on the issue of berth platming, a key step in the port operating environment. They propose a class of policies... 

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