ABSTRACT
This chapter describes problems in container terminals. The main functions of these terminals are delivering containers to consignees and receiving containers from shippers, loading containers onto and unloading containers from vessels, and storing containers temporarily to account either for efficiency of the equipment or for the difference in arrival times of the sea and land carriers. Containers are usually handled in two important compartments. We shall first describe what the compartments are, including the equipment involved in them. Then, the operations in container terminal are disclosed. After that, main decisions in the container terminal are defined. These decisions are subdivided into five scheduling problems.
