Exact method for single vessel and multiple quay cranes to solve scheduling problem at port of Tripoli-Lebanon

This paper discusses the Quay Crane Scheduling
Problem (QCSP) at port of Tripoli – Lebanon, determines
the unloading/loading sequences of bays for quay cranes
assigned to a single container vessel, provides a mixed integer
programming model for the quay crane scheduling problem
and proposes a dynamic programming algorithm to solve
the QCSP. The objective of this paper is to minimize the
completion time of unloading/loading containers and therefore
to reduce the docking time of the vessel in the terminal. Finally
the results of this paper are compared to the port results.