Online rules for container stacking

OR Spectrum

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 687-716

  Borgman, Bram ^a   van Asperen, Eelco ^b   Dekker, Rommert ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Container rehandling; Container stacking; Marine terminals; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953523087     PISSN: 01716468     EISSN: 14366304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-010-0205-4     Document Type: Article

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