2009
HMS 2009 Proceeding
An efficient block-based heuristic method for stowage planning of large containerships with crane split consideration
Authors: Xiantao Xiao, Malcolm Yoke Hean Low, Fan Liu,Shell Ying Huang, Wen Jing Hsu, Zhengping Li
Abstract
This paper presents an efficient block-based heuristic method for stowage planning of large containerships on a multi-port voyage, subject to a set of constraints. We de- scribe in detail some issues in stowage planning problem, including ship profile, constraints, crane split and rehan- dle. A ?block stowage? heuristic approach is developed to generate a set of stowage plans for a multi-port voy- age automatically. Finally, we present the results with a practical test case, and analyze the tradeoff between crane split and rehandles in stowage planning.
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