A New Management Mode Based on Prediction and Pre-Marshalling in Automated Container Terminal

The rehandling of export containers has become an important factor hindering the efficiency of automated container terminals. As a result, container terminal yard export container management has emerged as a key research area in port management. This article proposes a novel management mode to reduce container rehandling time and improve loading efficiency. Firstly, we predict the order in which export containers leave the yard. Then, we use the predicted results and a heuristic pre-marshalling algorithm to reshuffle the export containers. Finally, we use real data from an automated container terminal to generate a large number of examples to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of this management mode.