Energy consumption and operational performance in container ports
Energy consumption and operational performance in container ports
As an interface of maritime shipping and land transportation, container ports play an important role in the global supply chain. Although the maritime indus try has experienced decades of sustained growth of throughput and overall expansion, energy management has not become a particularly urgent issue until recently. The energy consumption in container ports accounts for a significant proportion in the maritime shipping sector and contributes to air quality, human health and climate change problems at local, regional and global levels. Port operations highly involve energy-intensive activities and play a vital part in developing a reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure that can support future economic development. Research to date has mainly focused on the understanding of the energy consumption and emissions in the land transportation and developed frameworks to improve energy utilisation ([1], [2], [3]). There are limited attempts at energy-saving perspectives on port operations at macro level, such as green port policy, green management practice, impact and evaluation of carbon dioxide emissions ([4]). Research at operational level remains scarce. Container movement in the ports involves different types of handling equipment, such as quay cranes, yard cranes, straddle carriers, reach stackers, etc, all of which greatly contributes the energy consumption in ports. This research examines the integrated scheduling problem of the handling equipment and yard space alloca tion with the consideration of energy consumption during container handling process. The energy consumed in different stages of processes is investigated, including loaded and unloaded travelling and waiting, which is incorporated into optimisation analysis and the trade-off between operational efficiency and energy consumption.
Wu, Yue
e279101b-b392-45c4-b894-187e2ded6a5c
4 September 2023
Wu, Yue
e279101b-b392-45c4-b894-187e2ded6a5c
Wu, Yue
(2023)
Energy consumption and operational performance in container ports.
International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science, Hotel Continental Terme, Ischia, Italy.
04 - 07 Sep 2023.
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As an interface of maritime shipping and land transportation, container ports play an important role in the global supply chain. Although the maritime indus try has experienced decades of sustained growth of throughput and overall expansion, energy management has not become a particularly urgent issue until recently. The energy consumption in container ports accounts for a significant proportion in the maritime shipping sector and contributes to air quality, human health and climate change problems at local, regional and global levels. Port operations highly involve energy-intensive activities and play a vital part in developing a reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure that can support future economic development. Research to date has mainly focused on the understanding of the energy consumption and emissions in the land transportation and developed frameworks to improve energy utilisation ([1], [2], [3]). There are limited attempts at energy-saving perspectives on port operations at macro level, such as green port policy, green management practice, impact and evaluation of carbon dioxide emissions ([4]). Research at operational level remains scarce. Container movement in the ports involves different types of handling equipment, such as quay cranes, yard cranes, straddle carriers, reach stackers, etc, all of which greatly contributes the energy consumption in ports. This research examines the integrated scheduling problem of the handling equipment and yard space alloca tion with the consideration of energy consumption during container handling process. The energy consumed in different stages of processes is investigated, including loaded and unloaded travelling and waiting, which is incorporated into optimisation analysis and the trade-off between operational efficiency and energy consumption.
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Published date: 4 September 2023
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International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science, Hotel Continental Terme, Ischia, Italy, 2023-09-04 - 2023-09-07
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