Research on Container Slot Planning for Coordinated Operation of Quay Cranes and Yard Cranes

Abstract

Given ship per-stowage plan and yard stacking status, this paper presents a method on container slot planning for coordinated operation of quay cranes (QC) and yard cranes (YC). A multi-objective programming model is established with the goal of maximizing the turnover rate of container terminal. Then, a heuristic construction algorithm is designed to obtain an initial stowage plan. In addition, an annealing genetic algorithm is proposed to optimize this initial solution. A wide variety of numerical experiments demonstrated that stowage plans made by this method are useful and applicable in practice.