Storage yard management based on flexible yard template in container terminal

With the bottleneck of port operation moving from the quay side to the yard area, storage yard management is becoming increasingly important in the container terminal. This paper studies on storage yard management in container terminal, a flexible yard template strategy is proposed instead of the fixed yard template strategy. Based on the strategy, an integrated optimization model simultaneously considering space allocation and yard crane deployment for the tactical storage yard management is formulated. Besides, Numerical experiments are conduced to verify the effectiveness of the proposed strategy and mathematical model.