TY - JOUR
T1 - A study of the sensitivity of sequence stacking strategies for the storage location assignment problem for out-bound containers in a maritime terminal
AU - Guerra-Olivares, Roberto
AU - Smith, Neale R.
AU - González-Ramírez, Rosa G.
AU - Cárdenas-Barrón, Leopoldo Eduardo
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - Recently, a new approach to solve the outbound container location problem motivated by the Shanghai maritime terminals was published. This approach addresses the problem by decomposing it into two stages. The first stage is a mathematical programming model and the second stage is a heuristic algorithm whose objective is to minimize the total reshuffle movements executed during the loading operation. That study reports that the diagonal stacking configuration provides the best performance. Conversely, this paper documents the results of a study to observe the performance of the various staking strategies under different conditions that can occur regularly in real ports. The parameters that are varied are the number of tiers in each stack, the number of container weight levels, and the permitted bay utilization. The results show that although the diagonal stacking strategy does provide the best performance under some conditions, it does not yield the best performance in other parameter combinations. The horizontal strategy is found to perform best for most of the parameter combinations considered in this study.
AB - Recently, a new approach to solve the outbound container location problem motivated by the Shanghai maritime terminals was published. This approach addresses the problem by decomposing it into two stages. The first stage is a mathematical programming model and the second stage is a heuristic algorithm whose objective is to minimize the total reshuffle movements executed during the loading operation. That study reports that the diagonal stacking configuration provides the best performance. Conversely, this paper documents the results of a study to observe the performance of the various staking strategies under different conditions that can occur regularly in real ports. The parameters that are varied are the number of tiers in each stack, the number of container weight levels, and the permitted bay utilization. The results show that although the diagonal stacking strategy does provide the best performance under some conditions, it does not yield the best performance in other parameter combinations. The horizontal strategy is found to perform best for most of the parameter combinations considered in this study.
KW - Container
KW - Maritime terminal
KW - Sequence stacking strategies
KW - Storage location assignment
KW - Container
KW - Maritime terminal
KW - Sequence stacking strategies
KW - Storage location assignment
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U2 - 10.1007/s13198-018-0733-x
DO - 10.1007/s13198-018-0733-x
M3 - Article
VL - 9
SP - 1057
EP - 1062
JO - International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management
JF - International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management
SN - 0975-6809
IS - 5
ER -