Quay crane scheduling with handling priority in port container terminals

The quay crane scheduling problem studied in this article is to determine a handling sequence of ship bays for quay cranes assigned to a container ship considering handling priority of every ship bay. This article provides a mixed integer programming model for the considered problem. A genetic algorithm (GA) is proposed to obtain near-optimal solutions. Computational experiments to examine the proposed model and solution algorithm are described. The computational results show that the proposed GA is effective and efficient in solving the considered quay crane scheduling problem.