Scheduling of lifting vehicle and quay crane in automated port container terminals

摘要

Container terminals are continuously facing the challenge of strong competition between ports. In this study, we present the terminal of Normandy-Le Havre port. We consider a mixed integer programming problem for the problem of assigning optimal delivery tasks to lifting vehicles. There are a lot of algorithms designed for this problem such as B&B method, cutting plane,... By using an exact penalty technique we treat this problem as a DC programme in the context of continuous optimisation. Further, we combine DCA with the classical Branch and Bound method for finding global solutions.