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769. Scheduling Automated Stacking Cranes in Container Terminals

Invited abstract in session WA-60: Manufacturing scheduling with sustainability considerations, stream Project Management and Scheduling.

Wednesday, 8:30-10:00
Room: S09 (building: 101)

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Sameh Haneyah
Equipment Control Systems and Services, Konecranes

Abstract

Container terminals are crucial links in the global supply chain. These facilities operate in a highly dynamic environment. In this context, a main logistic challenge is scheduling the container handling equipment to execute the container transport and handling operations efficiently and effectively. We research the objectives and optimization strategies to deploy in scheduling and dispatching container handling equipment, in automated container terminals. In this effort, we review literature on scheduling and dispatching in container terminals, model the container terminal scheduling problem and address different solution methods. We decompose the problem and focus on the Automated Stacking Cranes (ASC) scheduling problem. This problem addresses trade-offs such as delivering outbound containers to the transfer zones just-in-time versus delivering the containers early to avoid extra handling in the yard. The choices made on when to schedule container moves have a direct impact on the space utilization in transfer zones and on the minimization of unnecessary travel by the ASCs. In this study, we formulate the ASC Scheduling problem and discuss an online scheduling method.

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Status: accepted

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