In this work, we are looking at the problem of determining stowage plans for containerships. This problem, denoted in the literature as the Master Bay Plan Problem (MBPP), is computationally difficult to solve, that is NP-hard. We start from the optimal solution of subsets of bays related to...

In this paper we are involved with the so-called master bay plan problem (MBPP), that is the problem of finding optimal plans for stowing containers into a containership, with respect to a set of structural and operational restrictions. We describe in detail such constraints and give a basic 0-1...

The present paper deals with the problem of locating hubs for freight mobility in urban and suburban areas. In particular, we present a heuristic method that combines aspects coming from both classical simple plant location problems and shortest path ones on multimodal graphs. In the first phase...

A container terminal is devoted to transfer containers from sea to land and vice versa in the most efficient way. The main objective of a container terminal is to optimize, in terms of times and costs, the activities related to container handling and forwarding. As regards the hinterland side, a...

Maritime container terminals are playing a growing role within global transport chains. As intermodal nodes between sea traffic flows and inland distribution, they are very important to shipping lines. The current trend of moving towards economies of scale in regard to mother vessels is also...