Path location problem for the marine container terminal with arbitrary configuration

This study addresses the path location problem at container terminals with arbitrary configuration. Relatively new marine container terminals often have a rectangular configuration by making use of reclaimed land. However due to geographical reasons some terminals in the world have an irregular or polygon configuration. At the terminal with Rubber Tyred Gantry crane operated, the storage capacity depends on the path locations and the number of paths which the yard trailers move. In this paper, we will propose the heuristics algorithm to find the best path locations at the container terminal with an arbitrary configuration. From the computational results, our proposed approach can find better path location than the path location with same interval as the existed case, not only at irregular shape but also at rectangular shape.