Study On Berth Allocation Problem With Variable Service Priority In Multi-User Container Terminal

A dynamic berth allocation model with variable vessel service priorities is proposed to minimize the total handling vessel time in terminal. The First Comes First Served (FCFS) rule is not considered to improve the objective value in the model. A genetic algorithm is improved for the hard model with a reduced basic search space by considering approximate optimal solution properties. A large amount of computational experiments shows that the formulation and the proposed algorithm are adaptable to practical applications.