Planning and Scheduling for Maritime Container Yards: Supporting and Facilitating the Global Supply Network [Paperback]

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.

Introduction.- Maritime Terminal Operational Problems.- Discrete Time Model and Algorithms for Container Yard Crane Scheduling.- A Continuous Time Model for Multiple Yard Crane Scheduling with Last Minute Job Arrivals.- Heuristic Approach.- Validation via Simulation.

Dr. Wenkai Li is currently an assistant professor at International University of Japan, Japan teaching Operations Management, Supply Chain Management and Applied Statistics. He has held appointments as research fellows at National University of Singapore, the Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific and Monash University, Australia. Dr. Li has also acted as a consultant to organizations such as PSA Corp., Singapore, Emerson Singapore, DFS Singapore, Sinopec Group, China, PetroChina, China, etc. Dr. Li has been working and published extensively on areas such as maritime terminal, retailer, refinery, airlines, etc.

Dr. Yong Wu is currently a lecturer at the Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University, Australia. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and his Master's degrlã&