The coastal intermodal cargo-container joint supply chain is a complicated system with several stakeholders and a few challenging decision-making concerns, such as the laden container acceptance and routing problem, the empty container relocation problem, and the water transportation services...

"Multi-crane oriented" is a scheduling method that yard trailers can be shared by different quay cranes. In this paper, two models for this problem are developed. The first one is a model for an inter-ship-based sharing method. In this model, yard trailers can be shared by quay cranes of...