A quantitative analysis of container vessel arrival planning strategies

OR Spectrum

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 477-499

  Lang, Niels ^a   Veenstra, Albert ^b  

^a Imtech ICT Technical Systems   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Maritime container handling; Optimized arrival scheduling; Vessel arrival planning; Vessel terminal coordination

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953534367     PISSN: 01716468     EISSN: 14366304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-009-0186-3     Document Type: Article

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