Yard Arrangement Planning at the Container Terminal Operated by Straddle Carriers

Abstract

We have already considered the yard arrangement problem at the container terminal operated by each handling equipment type like RTG, RMG and SC. In that study, we have tried to compare total service time and space utilization among them. From that computational result under our assumption, RTG has outperformed SC in most cases. Therefore, in this study, we investigate the situation if new SC operations outperform SC operation as in the past, and also find the situation if new SC operation outperforms or is similar to RTG. We consider new SC operations like high-performance SC equipped, concept of container block treatment and so on.