Operations and Decisions in Container Terminal

by
Yun Jiang
Bilkent University

Sea cargo traffic by containers continues to grow and is about 200 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) a year in 2001.
Container terminal  acts as an important node in the sea cargo logistics, received lots of attention from researchers recently years.
Efficient operation of a container terminal involves making many resource allocation decisions like how to route container trucks
in the yard; where to store each arriving container, etc. In the seminar, the operations and decisions of container terminal will be
discussed based on a project for Hong Kong International Terminal (HIT).