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Constraint programming approach to quay crane scheduling problem

Unsal, Ozgur; Oguz, Ceyda - In: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and … 59 (2013) C, pp. 108-122

container terminals, with realistic constraints such as safety margins, travel times and precedence relations. Next, QCSP with …

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An empirical study of the impacts of operating and market conditions on container-port efficiency and benchmarking

Bichou, Khalid - In: Research in Transportation Economics 42 (2013) 1, pp. 28-37

Despite the growing amount of research on container-port efficiency and benchmarking, the literature on the subject is yet to provide stable and consistent results across researchers and in relation to dynamic operating and market conditions. In this paper, we formulate a number of operational...

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Improving the service operations of container terminals

Hsu, Wen‐Kai K. - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 24 (2013) 1, pp. 101-116

Purposes – In the relevant literature about container terminals (CTs), most studies focused on the internal operational … customer requirements into service operations of the container terminals, by which CT operators may make policies to improve … operations of CTs. The proposed model may provide valuable references for future research on container terminals. …

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Seaport performance comparison using data envelopment analysis: the case of Iberian container terminals

Dias, João Carlos Quaresma; Azevedo, Susana G.; … - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 13 (2012) 3/4, pp. 426-449

The purpose of this paper is to assess the performance of the main Iberian container terminals in terms of efficiency …-Organisation Maps (KSOM). The results evidence that the container terminals do have different performance levels and they present …

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Berth allocation with time-dependent physical limitations on vessels

Xu, Dongsheng; Li, Chung-Lun; Leung, Joseph Y.-T. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 216 (2012) 1, pp. 47-56

We consider a berth allocation problem in container terminals in which the assignment of vessels to berths is limited …

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Protecting our ports : domestic and international politics of containerized freight security

Grillot, Suzette R.; Cruise, Rebecca J.; D'Erman, Valerie J. - 2010

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A hierarchical taxonomy of decision-making models for container terminal operations

Tsitsamis, Dimitrios; Vlachos, Dimitrios; Iakovou, … - In: International Journal of Logistics Economics and … 1 (2008) 3/4, pp. 365-382

Managing container terminal operations in seaports is a cumbersome, complex and challenging problem. Given the importance of container traffic for international trade, it is surprising that this issue has been mostly tackled myopically. The problem involves a number of different criteria, such...

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The Application of Mathematical Programming Approaches to Estimating Container Port Production Efficiency

Cullinane, Kevin; Song, Dong-Wook; Wang, Tengfei - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 24 (2005) 1, pp. 73-92

Container terminal production is both an important and complicated element in the contemporary global economy. This paper aims to evaluate the efficiency of the world’s most important container ports and terminals using the two alternative techniques of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the...

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