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A Multi-stage Approach Aimed at Optimizing the Transshipment of Containers in a Maritime Container Terminal

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This paper addresses the management of container flows in a maritime container terminal. In this context, we propose a multi-stage approach that allows to provide a complete schedule of the container flows from their arrival within container vessels to their delivery to receiving companies. Our proposed approach is aimed at minimizing the total maximum waiting time of the companies after they have requested containers. The computational results indicate that there are some relations subjected to the involved resources that have to be considered when tackling this problem.

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This work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (project TIN2012-32608). Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz and Christopher Expósito-Izquierdo would like to thank the Government of Canary Island for the financial support they receive through their post-graduate grants. The research by Jesica de Armas is supported by the Canary Islands CIE: Tricontinental Atlantic Campus.

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    Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz, Jesica de Armas, Christopher Expósito-Izquierdo, Belén Melián-Batista & J. Marcos Moreno-Vega

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Lalla-Ruiz, E., de Armas, J., Expósito-Izquierdo, C., Melián-Batista, B., Moreno-Vega, J.M. (2015). A Multi-stage Approach Aimed at Optimizing the Transshipment of Containers in a Maritime Container Terminal. In: Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F., Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2015. EUROCAST 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9520. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27340-2_32

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