Container Terminals and Cargo Systems: Design, Operations Management, and Logistics Control Issues (Hardcover, 2007)

Container terminals and terminal operations.- Container terminals.- Simulation of a multiterminal system for container handling.- Comparing transportation systems for inter-terminal transport at the Maasvlakte container terminals.- Berth management in container terminal: The template design problem.- Mathematical modelling of container transfers and storage locations at seaport terminals.- An optimization model for storage yard management in transshipment hubs.- Advanced methods for container stacking.- Strategies for dispatching AGVs at automated seaport container terminals.- Dispatching vehicles in a mega container terminal.- Inventory-based dispatching of automated guided vehicles on container terminals.- Deadlock handling for real-time control of AGVs at automated container terminals.- Deadlock prevention for automated guided vehicles in automated container terminals.- Cargo systems.- The allocation of storage space for transshipment in vehicle distribution.- The workload balancing problem at air cargo terminals.- Simultaneous fleet assignment and cargo routing using benders decomposition.- O&D revenue management in cargo airlines-a mathematical programming approach.- A heuristic to solve a sea cargo revenue management problem.- Collaborating freight forwarding enterprises.