Abstract
Yard storage space and yard crane equipment are the core resources in the container terminal yard area. This paper studies the integrated yard space allocation (outbound container space) and yard crane deployment problem in resource-limited container terminals where yard space and yard cranes are extremely scarce. Two corresponding counterstrategies are introduced, respectively, and the integrated problem is solved as mixed integer programming. The model this paper formulated considers the container volume fluctuation of the service line, and the objective is a trade-off between yard sharing space and terminal operation cost. In numerical experiments, this paper tries to reveal the management meaning in practical operation of container terminal and provides decision support for terminal managers; therefore a series of scenarios are presented to analyze the relations among the yard sharing space, the number of yard cranes, the size of yard subblock, and the cost of terminal operation.
Highlights
With the rapid development of global economy, as a center of interregional trade, international container transportation has experienced rapid growth
This model aims to deal with the yard space allocation problem and yard crane deployment problem at the tactical level and provides the following results: (1) yard storage space allocation plan for outbound containers of all the service lines, which considers the container volumes, quay operation queues, YC loading points, and handling conflicts of service lines in the storage yard; (2) yard crane deployment profile, including the yard crane assignment plan in the initial period and subsequent yard crane moving scheme
A significant cause of this phenomenon is that the operation cost we considered is on the situation that the objective function is cost-saving pattern, so the yard operation cost we compared has been optimized
Summary
With the rapid development of global economy, as a center of interregional trade, international container transportation has experienced rapid growth. This planning procedure ignores considering the impact of a yard space allocation plan on the operational efficiency of YC, and this impact will be great in some case. It is necessary to Scientific Programming integrate these two related problems as a system, so that the yard space allocation and yard crane deployment can be properly coordinated Another emerging issue is that there are still many container terminals confronted with the resource-limited problem, such as Shanghai Yangshan port or Ningbo-Zhoushan port, there are many other terminals facing a severe overcapacity situation, and the limited resources in the yard area mainly concern the yard storage resource and YC equipment resource.
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