A flexible operation organization of container terminals considering intermodal transport demand
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Zhong, Lingchong
Li, Wenfeng
Guo, Wenjing
He, Lijun
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The operation organization of loading, unloading, and transshipment (LUT) is of great importance in managing, configuring resources, and scheduling container tasks for strengthening competitiveness in intermodal container terminals (ICTs). This study concludes
the seven existing intermodal transportation LUT routes for sea-road, sea-rail, and road rail intermodal LUT methods in ports. In the past decade, container terminals usually operate container tasks based on a traditional operation organization by separating the 7 types of
LUT routes. However, the traditional operation organization could not satisfy variable intermodal container transshipment simultaneously nor provide more choice of transshipment routes. A novel distributed parallel flexible operation organization with reentrant equipment (DPFOM_RE) for ICTs is constructed. Based on DPFOM_RE, ICTs can handle different intermodal container tasks at the same time with facility by multiple transshipment routes. The benefits for stakeholders and future directions for the proposed operation organization are discussed.
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2025-06
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