Improving port container terminal efficiency with the use of Markov theory

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 243-257

  Mennis, Evangelos ^a   Platis, Agapios ^a   Lagoudis, Ioannis ^a   Nikitakos, Nikitas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Container terminal; Gantry crane; Markov theory; Port; Stochastic modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249149499     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/mel.2008.3     Document Type: Article

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