Determining the storage location for outbound containers in a maritime terminal

This paper addresses storage location assignment problem for outbound containers. The problem is decomposed into two stages. The amount of locations in each block, which will be assigned to the containers bounded for different ships, is determined in the first stage. The exact storage location for each container is determined in the second stage. The problem in the first stage is solved by a mixed integer programming model, while hybrid sequence stacking algorithm is applied to solve the problem in the second stage. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is effective and efficient in solving the storage location assignment problem for outbound containers.