A ROBUST APPROACH FOR BERTH SCHEDULING PROBLEM IN SHAHID RAJAEE CONTAINER PORT

Berth scheduling is one of the most important problem in container terminals. Any change of berth plan may lead to significant changes of other operations, deteriorating the reliability and efficiency of terminal operations. In this paper, a robust berth scheduling problem (RBSP) which considers the uncertainty of vessel arrival delay andhandling time is studied. Slack times are inserted between the vessels occupying the same berthing location to give room for uncertain delays. The results have shown theproposed approach has significant effect in absorbing delays caused by uncertainty.