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The storage yard is the operational and geographical centre of most seaport container terminals. Therefore, it is of particular importance for the whole terminal system and plays a major role for trade and transport flows. One of the latest trends in container-storage operations is the automated Rail-Mounted-Gantry-Crane system, which offers dense stacking, and offers low labour costs. This book investigates whether the operational performance of container terminals is influenced by the design of these storage systems and to what extent the performance is affected by the terminal's framework conditions, and discusses the strategies applied for container stacking and crane scheduling. A detailed simulation model is presented to compare the performance effects of alternative storage designs, innovative planning strategies, and other influencing factors. The results have useful implications future research, practical terminal planning and optimisation. |
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 Pragmatic Project Automation: How to Build, Deploy, and Monitor Java AppsForget wizards, you need a slave--someone to do your repetitive, tedious and boring tasks, without complaint and without pay, so you'll have more time to design and write exciting code. Indeed, that's what computers are for. You can enlist your own computer to automate all of your project's repetitive tasks, ranging from individual builds and... | | | | |
Microsoft Silverlight GraphicsSilverlight represents an entirely new level of rich Web interface technology for Microsoft developers. With the new power of this development environment comes new challenges for graphic artists and programmers to use this technology to its fullest. "Microsoft Silverlight Graphics" will help you quickly become productive in Silverlight,... | | Data-Intensive Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications
The world is awash with digital data from social networks, blogs, business, science, and engineering. Data-intensive computing facilitates understanding of complex problems that must process massive amounts of data. Through the development of new classes of software, algorithms, and hardware, data-intensive applications can provide timely and... | | Windows 8 Administration Pocket Consultant
Writing Windows 8 Administration Pocket Consultant was a lot of fun—and a
lot of work. As I set out to write this book, my initial goals were to determine
how Windows 8 was different from its predecessors and what new features and
options
were available. As with any new operating system, I had to do a ... |
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