Study on Joint Dispatching of Bulk Carriers Berth and Ship Unloader

Abstract

The bulk terminals such as coal and iron ore play an important role in ensuring the effective energy supply and resource import in our country. It is necessary and instructive to study the optimization of the dispatching of bulk terminals. Berths are the most important docking facilities for bulk terminals. Ship unloaders are the most important loading and unloading equipment for bulk terminals. The joint scheduling of berths and ship unloaders can shorten the working time and waiting time of ships. This paper builds a model based on mixed integer optimization to calculate the total ship time in port. Using genetic algorithm to solve the example, the result proves that the model is practical and the algorithm is effective.