Flexible space-sharing strategy for storage yard management in a transshipment hub port

• Published in: OR Spectrum Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 417 - 439
• Main Authors: Jiang, Xinjia, Chew, Ek Peng, Lee, Loo Hay, Tan, Kok Choon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.03.2013; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Algorithms; Assignment problem; Business and Management; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization; Containers; Decision making; Integer programming; Mathematical models; Mixed integer; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Ports; Position (location); Regular Article; Strategy; Studies; Transportation industry; Utilization; Vessels; Warehousing; Workloads; United States > US; High–low workload balancing protocol; Flexible space-sharing strategy; Port operation; Consignment strategy

In this paper, a storage yard planning problem is studied for a transshipment port with limited space and high-throughput level. Generally, the consignment strategy is used in the yard for a transshipment port, where containers to the same destination vessel are stored together. This is to facilitat...