Planning and Scheduling for Maritime Container Yards

Download or read book Planning and Scheduling for Maritime Container Yards written by Wenkai Li and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maximizing reader insights into the challenges facing maritime supply chains and container port logistics service providers in Asia, this book highlights their innovative responses to these challenges through real-world case studies. With a focus on mathematical modeling, simulation and heuristics approaches, this book provides academics, engineers, container terminal operators, students in logistics and supply chain management with the latest approaches that can be used to address the planning and scheduling problem in large container terminal yards. This book can be used on a self-contained basis as teaching cases in an undergraduate or specialist class setting, or on techniques applied to maritime container operations for port operations.