Export container preprocessing method to decrease the number of rehandling in container terminal

Park, Young-Kyu; Kwak, Kyu-Seok

Journal of Navigation and Port Research 2011;35(1):77-82.
Published online February 28, 2011.

컨테이너 터미널내의 수출 컨테이너 재취급 감소를 위한 반입 컨테이너 선처리 방안

박영규, 곽규석

Export container preprocessing method to decrease the number of rehandling in container terminal

Young-Kyu Park, Kyu-Seok Kwak

Abstract

The export of the containers consists of two steps, carrying them into the container yard and, then, out to the ship. For the safety of the ship, the heavier container should be loaded at the lower part of the ship. Because of this, the container rehandling happens during carrying out to the ship, and the number of the rehandling container is an important factor for the loading and unloading capability. There has been many studies for utilizing the idle times after loading the containers in the container yard. This study suggests the method of decreasing the number of container rehandling by preprocessing the container using the information about the weight of the container. This method is the preprocessing one which can decrease, during carrying into the container yard, the number of container rehandling which can happen during carrying out to the ship, and, according to the simulation test, it showed to be more effective than other method.

Key Words: load;rehandling;preprocess;container;heuristic